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Re: Twitter API Page

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Post by threeseed »

usr1106 wrote: post #17

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.

It's alluding to the fact that the Developer API seems to have been decommissioned.

Maybe it was reactive to reduce load on the platform but more likely it's because it was a deliberate change.

Re: Twitter API Page

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Post by mrzool »

usr1106 wrote: post #17

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.

> I guess the submitter wants to tell us that the page might have been intentionally removed?

Pretty much. At the very least I wanted to spark some sort of conversation about it.

Re: Twitter API Page

#23

Post by sintaxi »

andy_ppp wrote: post #16

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 a…

The "For You" & "Following" tabs are exactly what I have wanted for ages. Even still, I'm pleased to see that people are exploring other options or logging out altogether.

Re: Twitter API Page

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Post by Xylakant »

threeseed wrote: post #19

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…

As mentioned here [1], the tweets received via the API do not contain the ads, so third-party clients usually don’t display them. Twitter never tried - so a better and probably more effective change would have been to include the sponsored messages in the API stream and have third party clients display them. I doubt that many clients would have actively filtered them, and doing so could have been grounds for revoking their API keys.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/01/14/information-twi...

Re: Twitter API Page

#25

Post by stingraycharles »

threeseed wrote: post #21
usr1106 wrote: post #17

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.

It's alluding to the fact that the Developer API seems to have been decommissioned. Maybe it was reactive to reduce load on the platform but more likely it's because it was a deliberate change.

Not sure how a bunch of static pages for developer API docs would reduce load. Compared to the load of actually using the API, it’s minuscule.

Re: Twitter API Page

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Post by asmosoinio »

To document, it says this right now for me:

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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.

Re: Twitter API Page

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Post by luckylion »

threeseed wrote: post #21
usr1106 wrote: post #17

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.

It's alluding to the fact that the Developer API seems to have been decommissioned. Maybe it was reactive to reduce load on the platform but more likely it's because it was a deliberate change.

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Re: Twitter API Page

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Post by philmcc »

stingraycharles wrote: post #25
threeseed wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's alluding to the fact that the Developer API seems to have been decommissioned. Maybe it was reactive to reduce load on the platform but more likely it's because it was a deliberate change.

Not sure how a bunch of static pages for developer API docs would reduce load. Compared to the load of actually using the API, it’s minuscule.

Oh. He said "Developer API", not the "Developer API Docs."

I believe he meant all of the countless bots and apps and "remindme" etc 3rd party functionality that developers have added on to twitter.

At some point I'd be un-surprised to see all of those removed, and replaced as internal for-pay functionality, given the way things are going.

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