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I remember the olden days when something like this would be voted to the top. A useful solution to a posted problem is what I hope to find for topics such as this.
Doesn’t work for me
You are doing something wrong.
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I have a bridge to sell anyone who believes this is true. AI companies have been a boon to businesses that want to lock down user data and now have an excuse. It may be true to the extent that Musk is legitimately angry that Twitter isn't getting a piece of that AI VC money (I'm sure he is). But: A) Twitter would probably move in this direction even if AI companies didn't exist, this is an excuse. Nothing about Musk'…
> Nothing about Musk's Twitter has indicated that he cares about Open data access or anonymous access to the site Not so, he tasked George Hotz with getting rid of that horrible popup which prevented you from scrolling down much if you weren't logged in, which was added soon before he bought Twitter. When that was removed I rejoiced. But now Twitter's gone 100x in the opposite direction.
I don't know; was that Musk's idea, or was that Hotz's idea? I vaguely think this was a change that Hotz wanted that Musk went along with.
To be fair, Musk will regularly pay lip-service to the idea of Open communication. I guess that's not literally nothing, but most large site policies have been in the direction of locking down content.
If there ever was a version of Musk that cared about Open access, it's been a while since that version of him saw the light of day. It's very consistent with his overall behavior to believe that he views Twitter content as being primarily his property rather than a community resource, and that he thinks that scrapers/AI companies/researchers are literally stealing from him if they derive any value at all from data that Twitter hosts.
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#973From Elon's twitter ( https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674942336583757825?s=20 ) "This will be unlocked shortly. Per my earlier post, drastic & immediate action was necessary due to EXTREME levels of data scraping. Almost every company doing AI, from startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth, was scraping vast amounts of data. It is rather galling to have to bring large numbers of servers online on an…
Then we just add 2fa to the scraper and continue scraping the shit out of Twitter. Checkmate.
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I remember the olden days when something like this would be voted to the top. A useful solution to a posted problem is what I hope to find for topics such as this.
Doesn’t work for me
for example:
https://syndication.twitter.com/srv/timeline-profile/screen-...
change the word at the end with the username you want to see
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#975for the desperate: https://syndication.twitter.com/srv/timeline-profile/screen-... add username at end from https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ and https://gist.githubusercontent.com/robotblake/a0f020381c1a91...
Nice, how does it work, when you can use twitter not logged?
correct. the first link you can use manually. The second link is a browser addon. The 3rd link you save to your computer then "import" in that addon to always rewrite twitter.com/username to the first link.
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Please don't throw around the word "stealing" so loosely. Scraping data from a public website is not "stealing". It might be a violation of the terms of service, but then you have the whole issue of click-through (formerly shrink-wrap) licenses and contracts of adhesion. If someone isn't vetting you and potentially signing you to a more meaningful contract before giving you access, for free, to data, then using that…
There are much bigger issues. 1. Users or one might say content creators don't own their data. Not just do those platform owners make a lot of money with the content (which they have a license to, as per site ToS) but then you have third parties scraping it now for commercial products. Using the data to train models that are then sold back to some of the same social media users who produced the content for free in th…
You may wish AI didn't exist, but it does. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle. We can still go after people who commit crimes using AI. Perhaps one day AGI will be possible and we will want to have discussions and share ideas with it just as do now with each other.
Governments, researchers, and all kinds of third parties have already been scraping every publicly available bit of data possible. There may be an increase now, but it's nothing new. It won't be the end of the society or the end of the internet anymore than AI will.
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Haven’t we been predicting twitter’s degradation for some time? When Musk removed half of his employees many of us realised systems would remain running for some time, but at a certain point they would start degrading without intervention. The more Musk makes changes, the faster it degrades.
How much time is it that the systems will remain running? Because it's been 9 months now and Twitter is still running fine. Time to admit that theory has been disproven.
Twitter just DDoSed itself because it is run by a genius and a team that does not know how the site works.
Stuff like this will happen more often in the future. It's downhill all the time.
Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
#978From Elon's twitter ( https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674942336583757825?s=20 ) "This will be unlocked shortly. Per my earlier post, drastic & immediate action was necessary due to EXTREME levels of data scraping. Almost every company doing AI, from startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth, was scraping vast amounts of data. It is rather galling to have to bring large numbers of servers online on an…
Elon has a good point there. Much of the current AI hotness is predicated on stealing peoples content and exploiting the infrastructure that other people have built. I don’t think it’s acceptable. The licenses, compensation models, law, technical solutions, attribution, security and privacy all need time to catch up. Regulation has a role to play as its a bit of a free for all right now. The irony of Elon mentioning…
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HN isn't next. We hate change. (More precisely: we're acutely aware that users hate change, and since we do too, it's kind of an easy call.) Also, the value of HN to YC consists of the community and keeping the community happy is therefore a must. (Did I say happy? More precisely: as happy as possible under the circumstances)
One welcome addition would be support for embedded images - sometimes you need to share some screenshots. For example right now, I am seeing rate limiting messsages from Twitter, from the normal account. But may be it will increase your costs a lot.
oh god no.
posts not being able to submit images is a huge part of what makes HN valuable (to me).
once HN needs to handle images, HN falls apart
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This. Twitter is doing what they can to drive people to mastodon. I've held off closing my Twitter account but I need to get better familiar with mastodon. I was wondering if there are accounts like NWS (weather updates) over there, or so they plan to have some soon. Also from brief exposure, servers like mastodon social reads like left wing echo chambers which is also cringe.
What kind of annoyances have you had on Twitter, as a user, that makes you want to leave? I have been using Twitter more often lately as I really don't care about what they do to their APIs or whatever, and it's honestly improving lately.
The main reason is I followed a lot of scientists in my field of research who left the platform. Plus there's been subtle (and some not so subtle) changes to the algorithm and the software.
Most of the people I followed before were clearly left wing. After Musk takeover a lot of them left the platform. Plus the algorithm now pushed more right-wing content in the home page. I wouldn't mind if it were real people discussing valid talking points. The problems are 1) they are all coming from blue check mark accounts, 2) most of it are clearly misinformation, and 3) you can tell most of these tweets and replies are troll and bot accounts. It's just annoying.
Musk boosting his own tweets in the feed was annoying. Had to unfollow him.
I use Twitter via mobile website, and it breaks more frequently than before.
Overall, it's become like Musk's other product, Tesla. It over promises and under delivers. It's not reliable anymore. As a 2x Toyota owner I cannot stand products that are results of crappy engineering. So there you go.
Edit: one more thing: it used to be that I could go to the trending hashtags and get latest news in a second. It's not the case anymore. Case in point: yesterday France was trending. I saw the tweets and got the impression that some member of minority community has committed mass stabbing or rape again. Because the Twitter results were brigaded by right wing blue check mark accounts spewing anti immigration propaganda. It was not until I read a BBC article that I realized what happened was complete opposite, police executed an immigrant at a traffic stop.
Twitter has lost almost all of its core values under Musk. It's just sad.