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Time to crawl! You can use something like Webrecorder, which IPFS also uses to pin tweets: https://blog.ipfs.tech/announcing-pin-tweet-to-ipfs/ See https://webrecorder.net Example https://replayweb.page/?source=https%3A%2F%2Freplayweb.page%...
- announced at 10pm - basically a week to decide what to do with your dev project - No information to help you make that decision This seems like more management by manchild. I strongly suspect that Musk realized his promises of cutting down bots etc. were failing and that they either couldn't or wouldn't develop abuse detection, so he's decided to solve the problem by making it cost money, with the (perhaps desired)…
Your problem could be solved by providing read-only API for free - you don't need to write access to do academic research (unless you want to influence the discourse).
- announced at 10pm - basically a week to decide what to do with your dev project - No information to help you make that decision This seems like more management by manchild. I strongly suspect that Musk realized his promises of cutting down bots etc. were failing and that they either couldn't or wouldn't develop abuse detection, so he's decided to solve the problem by making it cost money, with the (perhaps desired)…
"Free API is being abused badly right now by bot scammers & opinion manipulators. There’s no verification process or cost, so easy to spin up 100k bots to do bad things." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1621259936524300289
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I don’t think that’s likely. News orgs dependent on people seeing ads, so they benefit from their story going viral on twitter more than I think twitter benefits from people posting them. At the other end you have the conservative news channels that aggressively push bigot nonsense, and short as hell wouldn’t drop the opportunity to continue twitters conversion to parler.
What does going viral on Twitter even mean when no one is using Twitter anymore. That other bots, that don't use the bots API, find your used hashtags interesting?
Many are still using it. If they weren't this story wouldn't have ranked so high on HN
Guys, Twitter is we knew it is dead, it might even completely die soon. The sooner accounts like celebs, governments, etc realize it and move on - the better
- announced at 10pm - basically a week to decide what to do with your dev project - No information to help you make that decision This seems like more management by manchild. I strongly suspect that Musk realized his promises of cutting down bots etc. were failing and that they either couldn't or wouldn't develop abuse detection, so he's decided to solve the problem by making it cost money, with the (perhaps desired)…
API reads/writes don’t generate ad impressions. It’s really that simple. All the bot nonsense is rhetoric.
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> my infosec early warning bot What's the handle? Sounds interesting :)
Would be interested as well!
Guys, Twitter is we knew it is dead, it might even completely die soon. The sooner accounts like celebs, governments, etc realize it and move on - the better
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Your problem could be solved by providing read-only API for free - you don't need to write access to do academic research (unless you want to influence the discourse).
Providing a read-only API still costs Twitter money though. He's trying to make it profitable. Seems obvious that stuff like this would be cut.
Probably shouldn't have landed it with $1bn/year debt payments then, eh.
A huge concern that no one seems to be mentioning is that pretty much all academic data sets that used the Twitter API were required by the TOS to only be released publicly with the tweet ids, not the content of the tweet. Some of these have hundreds of thousands of tweets, and the only way to check the work of the researchers, or to build on it, is to use the api to reseed everything yourself. With this new policy t…
It seems to me that as a subject pool, Twitter is extremely bad (like other options that researchers tend pick out of frugality, like Mechanical Turk). Why use it at all?