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Twitter's API is down?

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Post by rchaud »

paulcole wrote: post #331
rchaud wrote: post #329

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Don't know about Moses, but here's what iJesus had to say: > The full Safari engine is inside of iPhone. And so, you can write amazing Web 2.0 and Ajax apps that look exactly and behave exactly like apps on the iPhone. And these apps can integrate perfectly with iPhone services. And guess what? There’s no SDK that you need! You’ve got everything you need if you know how to write apps using the most modern web standar…

Yeah it's almost like he changed his mind? I don't know, I'm not too bright. I'm also not in the habit of crying about what was said 15 years ago and what has clearly changed since then.

I never made a comment about your intelligence, but you may wish to re-evaluate your comprehension if a simple refutation strikes you as 'crying'.

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Post by heystefan »

kredd wrote: post #352
heystefan wrote: post #286

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> I saw that Twitter started displaying Blue subscriber tweets in a rather obnoxious way What way is that? Looks the same on my end.

Basically replies of subscribers get pushed to the top, so if you do a quick scroll you’ll see as if everyone is subscribed. If you expand, you’ll see everyone else.

Oh wow, never noticed this. Thanks!

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Post by ztjio »

nhtsamera wrote: post #291
counttheforks wrote: post #227

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Another point to show what Apple's true goal is: To kill general computing. If you buy an iPhone you should be able to run whatever app you want on it. But no, Apple knows best and will not permit you to do anything it doesn't approve of. As for the APIs being copyrightable see Google vs Oracle.

You shouldn't even need to run an "app". A phone is no different from a laptop, except that it is smaller and the mouse/keyboard are part of the screen. On my phone, I should be able to: * Open an IDE and write some code. * Compile my code (depending on the language). * Run my code. The whole concept of "app stores" is absurd. In 10 years, will we be denied sudo rights on our laptops? Will we need to pay a 30% cut to…

Apple ships an app THEMSELVES that enables this (for iPad anyway) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swift-playgrounds/id908519492 and there are third party apps for general programming as well. I have one for Python (Pythonista) and one for C# and F# (Continuous) on my iPhone right now. There is a HUGE selection of similar apps for general purpose computing on iOS.

These are unique platforms with unique properties in their design. You value them or you don't. Nobody's forcing you to use them for general purpose computing and there are thousands upon thousands of BRAND NEW general purpose computing products with zero restrictions produced every year. People in this thread are being drama queens.

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Post by ReflectedImage »

mlindner wrote: post #198
smcl wrote: post #195

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I have seen a handful of “this is it” comments out of ~180 in total and they were all downvoted to 0 or less. Most of the rest of the comments are people trying to figure out wtf works and doesn’t or people speculating if Twitter are moving to kill off 3rd Party apps (and whether they’d have to move to Twitter mobile web).

Almost every top post is a "this is it" post, along with many of the second level posts on the top posts that aren't.

We all know Twitter will eventually go down.

It's just fun to speculate on how long it takes for a complex software system to collapse without maintenance.

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Post by dgdosen »

93po wrote: post #366
onion2k wrote: post #241

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and yet announcements still are made Elon's tweets aren't the same as announcements from Twitter. He tweets as an individual. Twitter, the company , is a blackhole as far as comms goes. There is no news in any official capacity from the company any more.

Sure, no news in any official capacity if you ignore https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety https://twitter.com/TwitterMktgJP https://twitter.com/TwitterMktgUK https://twitter.com/TwitterMktgKR https://twitter.com/TwitterEng https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport https://twitter.com/TwitterBusiness https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes https://twitter.com/TwitterMktgDACH https://twitter.com/Policy https://twitter.com/twitter I d…

So what is Twitter's response to the issue? Surely one of those accounts has addressed it... I can't seem to find it.

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Post by plushpuffin »

wut42 wrote: post #408
plushpuffin wrote: post #373

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It happens whenever the app reloads. If you swipe up (on iOS) to quit the app and then re-open it, you'll see it start off on For You.

What do you mean by "reload" ? I just tried on iOS to "exit" the app (swipe up in task manager), restart the app: it kept showing me the chronological timeline, like I picked last time. Also- this random behavior is totally different on my couple of alts on the same iOS app.

Well, your behavior differs from mine, then.

When I quit and reopen the app, or choose one of my custom lists and then tap home, it switches to For You.

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Post by dzamo_norton »

fsflover wrote: post #345
nhtsamera wrote: post #291

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You shouldn't even need to run an "app". A phone is no different from a laptop, except that it is smaller and the mouse/keyboard are part of the screen. On my phone, I should be able to: * Open an IDE and write some code. * Compile my code (depending on the language). * Run my code. The whole concept of "app stores" is absurd. In 10 years, will we be denied sudo rights on our laptops? Will we need to pay a 30% cut to…

This is exactly why I bought Librem 5 smartphone, which can do all these things and can even serve as a laptop, if you connect a keyboard and a screen.

> which can do all these things and can even serve as a laptop

If it could only also serve as a smartphone I'd have one already.

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Post by fsflover »

dzamo_norton wrote: post #418
fsflover wrote: post #345

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This is exactly why I bought Librem 5 smartphone, which can do all these things and can even serve as a laptop, if you connect a keyboard and a screen.

> which can do all these things and can even serve as a laptop If it could only also serve as a smartphone I'd have one already.

Using it as my daily driver. Depends on your use case though. Sent from my Librem 5.

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Post by nicbou »

satvikpendem wrote: post #203
samwillis wrote: post #67

It would not surprise me if this is the end of third party clients and the new owner has removed access. Very disappointing if he has, particularly if he's done it with zero notice too. He has been making significant noise of feature changes in the official client coming in the next couple of weeks. Removing the third party client access would align with that, along with removing the little "posted by ..." note on ea…

That is why companies should always stay vigilant about platform risk. In general, own your platform, don't built your business on someone else's platform, it is too easy for them to deplatform you on their whim.

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