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This seems like Elon distributed free API tokens to specific 3rd party vendors?
What reason could he possibly have to give them to Nitter, which has at its primary purpose undermining their conversion and engagement attempts? The old token was the twitter web token. I suspect the new one is one of the mobile clients. Maybe new tweetdeck. Though probably the iOS client token makes the most sense, being the hardest to rotate on a whim with app store review.
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> For context, Twitter would have a team of two dozen or more supporting what this does Of course, because if Nitter goes down nobody bats an eye.
And the flagship instance of Nitter is unusable more often than not - the fact that it's working today is likely an artifact of people having given up given the week long total outage.
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And the flagship instance of Nitter is unusable more often than not - the fact that it's working today is likely an artifact of people having given up given the week long total outage.
Maybe you don't use it very often? For months before the recent chaos it was very reliable. The fact that it's working today is only because I fixed it, Twitter didn't change anything.
I quit twitter when I discovered it. Thank you.
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And the flagship instance of Nitter is unusable more often than not - the fact that it's working today is likely an artifact of people having given up given the week long total outage.
Maybe you don't use it very often? For months before the recent chaos it was very reliable. The fact that it's working today is only because I fixed it, Twitter didn't change anything.
I will admit that since I did remove it from the rotation, I don't see it that often these days, mostly when others link to it and then I navigate to a timeline.
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Maybe you don't use it very often? For months before the recent chaos it was very reliable. The fact that it's working today is only because I fixed it, Twitter didn't change anything.
It works great. Don't pay attention to the philosophers. I quit twitter when I discovered it. Thank you.
Is this really permanent? I'd love to know more about this bearer token. Because in the other github issue thread it seemed like every time they found a way around Twitter's safeguards, it was shutdown. It seems like they've literally hard coded a token into the source code. Meaning thousands of nitter-instances, thousands of users, around the world, will use the same token. And potentially so will the AI companies.…
I think this is why NewPipe doesn't work most of the time. Or if it does work, its absurdly slow.
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Hope Twitter soon lets go of the temporary login restriction too. Given that this isn't completely blocked without a login, I'd expect that to be not far from now on. From what I've collected, I hope Twitter'd start selling dumps of their public data for a bit of a win/win with AI companies and Twitter itself.