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Re: Twitter API Page

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Post by CommitSyn » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 9:37 AM UTC

mrzool wrote: post #6

samwillis wrote: post #3

I'm not sure what that link was supposed to be before it 404ed. But clicking through from the Twitter Developer homepage you can get to these: https://developer.twitter.com/en/products/twitter-api https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api All links to dev portal, product information and docs seem to work. I assume the post is suggesting the Twitter api has been "removed" in relation to the reader apps being b…

> I assume the post is suggesting the Twitter api has been "removed" in relation to the reader apps being blocked. Your assumption is right, that’s what I was hinting at. I might be wrong but I strongly suspect this is all intentional. > Anyone got more context on what the "missing" page was? I don’t know exactly, I assume some sort of landing page with links to your aforementioned resources. EDIT: Here’s the Web Arc…

> strongly suspect this was intentional

Considering the 404 of that page

> This page is down

> I scream. You scream. We all scream... for us to fix this page. We’ll stop making jokes and get things up and running soon.

vs the 404 of other developer.twitter/error pages

> You've washed ashore on null island

> Sadly, the party is over. Head back to the mainland. Or, if you're up for some exploring, try the search bar above.

I'd say it's quite likely rub-it-in-your-face intentional.

Re: Twitter API Page

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Post by athul_jayaram » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 9:37 AM UTC

Shadowed_ wrote: post #4

samwillis wrote: post #3

I'm not sure what that link was supposed to be before it 404ed. But clicking through from the Twitter Developer homepage you can get to these: https://developer.twitter.com/en/products/twitter-api https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api All links to dev portal, product information and docs seem to work. I assume the post is suggesting the Twitter api has been "removed" in relation to the reader apps being b…

This is version from 2022-11-19: https://web.archive.org/web/20221119170753/https://developer...

That's a well built page look's great

Re: Twitter API Page

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Post by erk__ » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 9:45 AM UTC

DemocracyFTW2 wrote: post #10

erk__ wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TweetDeck would be really strange since it is owned by Twitter itself, but yeah it is apps like Tweetbot and other mobile apps. It is rather sad since 3rd party apps was a big plus for Twitter users especially before they made their API worse, but that was years ago.

> owned by Twitter I can see that becoming the new go-to meme when things go belly-up

Yeah I surely don't want to be owned by them in both meanings of the word, they also recently shut down Revue which was a pretty cool thing

https://www.getrevue.co/

Re: Twitter API Page

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Post by magicloop » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 9:50 AM UTC

It reminds me of: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" which describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."

I understand that Twitter no longer employs a comms team, so no comms on that particular issue. But... has the revolution come?

Re: Twitter API Page

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Post by jimmySixDOF » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 9:56 AM UTC

So many minor flags already that the problem could be completely accidental. For example people search in android client no longer checks my following&followers. Odd audio behavior in Spaces. More than a few scattered bits of broken micro features work and then don't again. Meanwhile press coverage is look how they only needed half the people on staff so let's do this everywhere asap and recapture value for the poor shareholders.

Re: Twitter API Page

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Post by andy_ppp » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 9:58 AM UTC

Twitter has started showing me soft pornography and other teams football fans that I don’t follow in my main feed. Either is a step too far for me, I’ve logged out on all devices (web, I’ve never had the app) and I’m going to see how many days I can go before logging back in.

Elon Musk is not a product person he’s building something nobody wants in my opinion and I’m happier without it. API being turned off is just another mark against a terrible product.

Re: Twitter API Page

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Post by usr1106 » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 10:05 AM UTC

The submission is unclear. I get "The apge is down". I guess the submitter wants to tell us that the page might have been intentionally removed? Or Twitter have too few employees left to keep their stuff maintained?

Well, I have come to my conclusion some weeks ago: I don't want to have anything to do with Twitter anymore.

Re: Twitter API Page

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Post by Nullabillity » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 10:07 AM UTC

CommitSyn wrote: post #11

mrzool wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I assume the post is suggesting the Twitter api has been "removed" in relation to the reader apps being blocked. Your assumption is right, that’s what I was hinting at. I might be wrong but I strongly suspect this is all intentional. > Anyone got more context on what the "missing" page was? I don’t know exactly, I assume some sort of landing page with links to your aforementioned resources. EDIT: Here’s the Web Arc…

> strongly suspect this was intentional Considering the 404 of that page > This page is down > I scream. You scream. We all scream... for us to fix this page. We’ll stop making jokes and get things up and running soon. vs the 404 of other developer.twitter/error pages > You've washed ashore on null island > Sadly, the party is over. Head back to the mainland. Or, if you're up for some exploring, try the search bar ab…

That looks more like a 500 error to me.

Re: Twitter API Page

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Post by threeseed » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 10:31 AM UTC

There is no reason for Twitter to remove third-party clients unless they want to move ads outside of the main feed. If you allowed the API anyone could build a Twitter minus the ads.

This approach would allow them to decommission their existing ad system likely because they have lost too much institutional knowledge about how to run the previous one. Especially given it is heavily intertwined [1] with the fundamental timeline systems.

And given that I am constantly recommended random ads e.g. fertilizer and industrial mining machinery my guess is that the ML models powering the ads system have not been retrained since the last major wave of firings.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593899029531803649

Re: Twitter API Page

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Post by mrzool » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 10:32 AM UTC

jimmySixDOF wrote: post #15

So many minor flags already that the problem could be completely accidental. For example people search in android client no longer checks my following&followers. Odd audio behavior in Spaces. More than a few scattered bits of broken micro features work and then don't again. Meanwhile press coverage is look how they only needed half the people on staff so let's do this everywhere asap and recapture value for the poor…

> So many minor flags already that the problem could be completely accidental.

I hope you're right, but honestly there are also legit reasons to think otherwise. It could be a fuck up due to staff shortage and knowledge loss crisis, but it could also be an impromptu, poorly implemented and communicated decision. Both scenarios would not be surprising at this point.