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- 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)…
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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.
Yep. Tearing down the ecosystem to support the product. Whether it’s Elon or someone else, this shows a total lack of understanding of what made Twitter ubiquitous.
Is there some law which says Musks other assets cannot be seized when the inevitable bankruptcy happens? Is see a lot of "it's 4d chess" comments and I keep thinking: wait, he has all these other assets: in the jurisdictions I live in he would be forced to meet his debts from Tesla and spacex shares.
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Agree. It's quite the jump going from a user-centric website to a space launch company that is used by corporations and governments. Like, okay, I guess SpaceX is extremely accessible compared to other options in the space industry, but why would that have any bearing on how accessible the Twitter website is for you and me day-to-day?
Starlink has created more information accessibility that twitter will ever will
Just because it’s the same word does not mean it’s the same meaning.
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What happens if/when they block that Bearer token?
The token has been the same since at least 2020 when Twitter started using GraphQL instead of REST. Every person visiting twitter.com is using this same token. The token is neither personal nor private. What would be the point of changing or blocking it.
Be interesting to see if that stays the same when they're charging for the API but leaving a huge loophole with this token.
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I think Twitter was never profitable to start with.
Twitter can be profitable. It made over billion dollars in both 2018 and 2019 on revenues of $3 billion. 2020 was big loss but can blame the pandemic. 2021 was small loss but would have been profitable except for lawsuit settlement. Without Musk, Twitter would likely have been profitable in 2022. No extra debt, no fleeing advertisers, no massive cuts. Some layoffs like everyone else is doing would probably have been…
Please back this up with an actual projection that says anything close to this. Twitter was not on track to ever be profitable before Musk bought it.