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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API

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Re: Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API

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Post by KVFinn »

Jach wrote: post #199
klez wrote: post #170

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I'm intrigued. How does Japan Twitter works differently than western Twitter? Can you shed some light or provide a link to read about it?

I'm not sure it's all that different, just maybe you see more of it if you interact with JP twitter? Like artists use integrations to share their art on twitter and elsewhere, and lots of various services/games/survey-things prefer or require you to use twitter login instead of making you sign up with them directly and they use the API on their backend for various things. But that happens outside Japan too. I just wo…

>lots of various services/games/survey-things prefer or require you to use twitter login instead of making you sign up with them directly and they use the API on their backend for various things.

That's all I mean. I don't use Twitter on ID on mobile apps and I don't think this is common at all in the US, but it's not uncommon for random gacha games to tie player ID by Twitter accounts in Japan. From what I can tell nobody is sure what the consequences of the change will be, like maybe auth only uses are fine. But since nobody knows, all the big games are playing it safe and telling everyone to move their player IDs away from Twitter.

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Post by KVFinn »

kondro wrote: post #10

Better export those Mastodon accounts whilst you can! https://fedifinder.glitch.me

Twitter started blocking this stuff already, might be your last chance.

>So you may have noticed that the Twitter login of https://movetodon.org/ is not working at the moment.

>According to twitter, the app “has violated Twitter Rules and policies”. I can’t tell much more at the moment since the email they mention never arrived in my inbox.

https://mastodon.social/@Tibor/109800904950500383

Re: Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API

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Post by tgv »

naasking wrote: post #227
tgv wrote: post #151

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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?

I think the paper showing that Twitter activity slightly predicted stock movements was incredibly interesting and valuable to know. I'm sure there are plenty of other papers as well, like analyses of Arab spring?

An analysis of the Arab spring could also have been made with other sources. It's easy material, that's what Twitter is. Easy, but also misleading.

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Post by [deleted] »

voytec wrote: post #209
snake_doc wrote: post #154

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API reads/writes don’t generate ad impressions. It’s really that simple. All the bot nonsense is rhetoric.

API calls just grabbing data may not generate impressions but people follow bots that utilize this API and (some) bot-generated content generates interactions: likes, shares, comments. Twitter may be heading closer towards becoming a ghost town.

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Post by encryptluks2 »

HWR_14 wrote: post #115
anigbrowl wrote: post #3

- 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)…

Musks promises of cutting down on bots only mattered to him and to the degree he made a big deal about it. He could have declared victory whenever and been done with it. Who would have argued.

I would have because all his posts are still full of bot spam and crypto scams... But, he certainly has no shortage of bots that upvote and call him king.

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Post by [deleted] »

jmeister wrote: post #127
anigbrowl wrote: post #3

- 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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Post by pessimizer »

some1else wrote: post #173
jmeister wrote: post #127

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"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

Classic sock-puppet usage is done through the web UI.

Is this kind of thing still possible with Buffer? I don't keep current with twitter manipulation tech. And do Buffer, RoundTeam and Hootsuite use the API directly?

How A Twitter Fight Over Bernie Sanders Revealed A Network Of Fake Accounts

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democratic-bot-network-sally-...

https://shareblueastroturf.netlify.app/

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Post by naasking »

tgv wrote: post #233
naasking wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the paper showing that Twitter activity slightly predicted stock movements was incredibly interesting and valuable to know. I'm sure there are plenty of other papers as well, like analyses of Arab spring?

An analysis of the Arab spring could also have been made with other sources. It's easy material, that's what Twitter is. Easy, but also misleading.

Twitter was a big driving force in that movement. Being able to track moment by moment activity and movements and how this shaped the Arab spring is not something you could achieve with other sources.

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Post by gonzo41 »

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #223
gonzo41 wrote: post #213

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Whilst I like the fire analogy a lot. it doesn't capture how much he's on the hook vs what we loose if twitter dies. I will loose...... can't really tell. Elon will have irreparable reputational damage done to him forever.

Will have?

In the sense, he'll find it somewhat harder to do things like get big loans in the future.
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