Oh... is Nitter based on the API protocol is using the javascript obfuscated web browser protocol?
Nitter is based on the obfuscated javascript network protocol then should still work after the API shutdown.
Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API
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#462What a joke
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#463Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> He's trying to make it profitable. Probably shouldn't have landed it with $1bn/year debt payments then, eh.
> Probably shouldn't have landed it with $1bn/year debt payments then, eh.
It's worth remembering the market setting was very different when he made the offer. It's also worth remembering the offer was refused at the time it was made. It was only after the tech market saw a downturn, turning a good offer into an incredible one, was the offer pursued. Around that time, it also looks like he attempted to renegotiate the offer, but that was also refused.
Poor timing of the offer (only knowable in retrospect!) and shareholder obligations more or less forced this situation into existence. Musk made a good offer with a terrible contract; time, shareholders, the board, the legal system, and the stock market turned that terrible contract into a huge payout for shareholders and a signed a death warrant for Twitter.
Musk made a mistake in the way he made the offer for Twitter--but let's not pretend that the legal system isn't equally responsible for forcing the current situation. Even if the previous leadership were open to negotiating a lower buyout (and thus lower debt burden), they would have just opened themselves up to endless shareholder lawsuits had they done so. Their hands were effectively tied once the rest of the tech stock market started going down.
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I'm in the "impulsive purchase including buyers remorse" camp. Also yes (wo)men in Elons Musks inner circle who are unable to contradict him. Now that the deals i done he needs to make the best of it (for his ego but also for Tesla control reasons). What will come of it remains to be seen. It could still end in a number of ways
I don't think it's that simple. Imagine if you had 'overpaid' for ownership of most US radio broadcasting in 1938. On paper it might look like a terrible investment, but depending on your goals and alliances it might be worth massively more than the book value.
Could be and billionaires have a tendency to fall very softly.
I'm still figuring out how the "no due diligence, no exit hatch - final offer" figures into this. Why no not do it like you usually approach a takeover of this scale.
He did try to wiggle out of it almost instantly and found himself locked into the contract by "himself".
To me this feels like he made a fairly emotional decision, used his influential network and personal assets to setup the deal but was afraid to "chicken out"/face reality when given the chance.
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Starlink has created more information accessibility that twitter will ever will
But that’s not in any way shape or form the “accessibility” being talked about here. Just because it’s the same word does not mean it’s the same meaning.
I wasn't sure how to put it into words and this was exactly what I had in mind.
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One thing to consider: These events where Twitter does something like this trigger visible migration waves, observable from the FediVerse and elsewhere. There are several spikes in graphs over the past few months, that correlate with things like disabling TweetBot et al.. People are giving out advice to those who migrate away from Twitter to unfollow everyone that they were following, but leave the account undeleted…
That’s Musk cult speech, cut that out. Your boss messed up again, not knowing the community norms and thinking it won’t be a big deal, and it was, and his subordinates are running around rolling it back. And you’re trying to set a new narrative for damage control. STFU and go away.
He says that lots of people are leaving and implies it is due to Musk’s stupid decisions and you think he’s some kind of Musk shill?!
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> Every person visiting twitter.com is using this same token. Be interesting to see if that stays the same when they're charging for the API but leaving a huge loophole with this token.
Twitter is not alone in using GraphQL this way, having all website visitors use the same token or key. Other websites do it, too, as shown below. Using GraphQL like this can be an effective dark pattern because to anyone using a "modern" browser that "tech" commpanies control it makes it seem like the text of the website cannot be retrieved without Javascript enabled. That's false, but nonetheless it gets people to e…
Here is a non-curl version of HN search using custom HTTP generator yy025 and h1b, an alias for localhost address of TLS forward proxy
#!/bin/sh
export Connection=close;
export Content_Type=x-www-form-urlencoded;
export httpMethod=POST;
x=$(echo '{"query":"'$@'","analyticsTags":["web"],"page":0,"hitsPerPage":30,"minWordSizefor1Typo":4,"minWordSizefor2Typos":8,"advancedSyntax":true,"ignorePlurals":false,"clickAnalytics":true,"minProximity":7,"numericFilters":[],"tagFilters":["story",[]],"typoTolerance":"min","queryType":"prefixNone","restrictSearchableAttributes":["title","comment_text","url","story_text","author"],"getRankingInfo":true}');
export Content_Length=${#x};
echo "https://uj5wyc0l7x-3.algolianet.com/1/indexes/Item_production_sort_date/query?x-algolia-agent=Algolia%20for%20JavaScript%20(4.0.2)%3B%20Browser%20(lite)&x-algolia-api-key=8ece23f8eb07cd25d40262a1764599b1&x-algolia-application-id=UJ5WYC0L7X"|(yy025;echo "$x") \
|nc -vv h1b 80Re: Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API
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Starlink has created more information accessibility that twitter will ever will
But that’s not in any way shape or form the “accessibility” being talked about here. Just because it’s the same word does not mean it’s the same meaning.
Yes, but since we are judging a person for his merit…
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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.
What ecosystem? I might be dim or out of touch but I’ve never seen anything related to Twitter outside of the app itself.
It's not an app it's a website.
What's with these cell phone people calling everything APPS? Hi. They're WEBSITES. Just because you might use a stupid cell phone app to access the stupid website doesn't mean it's no longer a website.
Use the right words and stop recording video vertically. I hate all of you cell phone people.
Re: Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API
#470- 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)…
> This seems like more management by manchild. I strongly suspect that Musk realized his promises of cutting down bots etc. were failing
He probably started to realize that other people began to realize just how many Tesla bots there are.