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

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Post by nailer »

anigbrowl wrote: post #401
nailer wrote: post #267

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> This seems like more management by manchild. You have good points and can probably make them without resorting to insults.

I can, but made a choice to be opinionated here. The CEO of Twitter leverages clownishness for effect, titling himself (at present) as 'Mr Tweet' and uninhibitedly trolling others, often in crude or aggressive terms. While I could take a Ghandian approach of not reciprocating such negative behavior and instead maintain a diplomatic/academic air of prim neutrality, I think Musk's behavior is strategic in that he asser…

> leverages clownishness for effect, titling himself (at present) as 'Mr Tweet'.

OK. I thought that was funny personally.

> While I could take a Ghandian approach of not reciprocating such negative behavior

I didn't think it was comparable to the British treatment of India under the raj, but OK.

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Post by eecc »

nirvgorilla wrote: post #469
eecc wrote: post #443

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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.

Sorry, imho it’s best consumed via the mobile app. Indeed all these “web-apps” should just be taken out of the browser and leave it to hypermedia experience. They can be their own native app just as fine

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Post by nirvgorilla »

eecc wrote: post #482
nirvgorilla wrote: post #469

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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.

Sorry, imho it’s best consumed via the mobile app. Indeed all these “web-apps” should just be taken out of the browser and leave it to hypermedia experience. They can be their own native app just as fine

Are you nuts? Yeah I want 10,000 icons on my desktop rather than just one browser.

Man this generation blows. No wonder you're fine with 10 different game publisher clients, 10 different movie publisher clients, and 500 different "apps" to access websites. Keep recording vertically dude. (GEEZUS)

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Post by bob_theslob646 »

sylware wrote: post #186

Oh... is Nitter based on the API protocol is using the javascript obfuscated web browser protocol?

>"Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)"

Will be interesting to see if it works in a week

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Post by ecmascript »

jillesvangurp wrote: post #299
ecmascript wrote: post #121

Very short notice but otherwise I don't get why people are mad that it is going paid only. Try making an API request to Instagram or the other thousands of large websites that doesn't evne have an api. If you like the service, just pay for it. I pay for a lot of services already and I do not see why Twitter must absolutely be free. Honestly, I prefer a world where people charge for their products because it will make…

Exactly. The way I see it, Twitter was a zombie company for quite a few years. Not sustainable the way it was. Lots of bots, obnoxious people, scammers, spammers, etc. and not a whole lot of positive stuff happening from a business point of view. Bloated big silicon valley company long out of ideas on how to fix things. Hiring more people and trying to be woke clearly wasn't helping. The notion that this could just h…

Very few wants to pay for hosting crap, so yes I would also believe it would get rid of the overwhelming majority of the crap.

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Post by dmak »

dmitriid wrote: post #281
college_physics wrote: post #116

At some point I saw speculation that the idea is to turn twitter into some sort of super-app like wechat. If that is true then it makes sense to button down loose "ecosystem" thingies that were setup during a more innocent and hopeful era. This will probably destroy a whole bunch of use-cases and motivations for people and organizations to use twitter, but might retain enough of a core (mostly low-information) user b…

> At some point I saw speculation that the idea is to turn twitter into some sort of super-app like wechat. If that is true then it makes sense to button down loose "ecosystem" thingies that were setup during a more innocent and hopeful era. What do you think WeChat is if not integration of hundreds of external apps and developers? If you were really serious about turning Twitter into WeChat, you would: - have an act…

At this point, I think the person who paid bajillion dollars for twitter can do as they see fit. I'm just waiting for a new social media platform to pop up now.

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Post by zpeti »

cycomanic wrote: post #425
zpeti wrote: post #396

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Frankly the guy designed rockets that landed for the first time ever so I think he probably has the brain capacity to make this calculation. He might not be great at decisions where people and politics are involved, but this isn’t one of those decisions. But some people here on HN really want to believe he’s an idiot, which he’s not.

Can we please stop saying that the CEO of a company did anything but lead a company (not to downplay the difficulty of leading a company). Musk certainly did not design rockets that land themselves. I highly doubt that he could even write down (let alone solve) the main important equations when asked. It's funny how some execs are attributed with doing everything (Jobs and Musk are the main ones), while nobody would…

Watching even 1 video of an everyday astronaut interview with Musk makes it completely obvious you are completely wrong. And so do tonnes of testimonials on quora from spacex employees.

Musk is the chief engineer of spacex rockets. He's not just a CEO.

Do a little research before making comments like this.

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Post by TheHappyOddish »

rsynnott wrote: post #60

Okay, so this one is nearly making me buy into those conspiracy theories that Musk is deliberately breaking Twitter because 4d chess (only nearly; this is incompetence rather than anything else). There's an argument to be had whether it makes sense for Twitter to have a free API tier. I personally think that it's obvious it should: - A lot of Twitter content/engagement is created by bots, and people quote-tweeting sa…

Whilst I don't disagree with you, I can't think of a single time I've been happy consuming from or interacting with a bot, someones toy project, or another API driven system on Twitter.

You experience obviously varies, but I suspect most people are there to follow people.

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