Twitter shut off API access; users volunteering their own data for an open API

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Post by OmarShehata » Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 4:23 PM UTC

Twitter shut off API access; users volunteering their own data for an open API
omarshehata.substack.com

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Post by toomuchtodo » Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 4:31 PM UTC

https://www.community-archive.org/

https://github.com/TheExGenesis/community-archive

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Post by ranger_danger » Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 4:58 PM UTC

> cheaply as possible (put everything in S3

yikes.

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Post by OmarShehata » Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 4:59 PM UTC

ranger_danger wrote: post #3

> cheaply as possible (put everything in S3 yikes.

feedback is very much needed

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Post by rasengan » Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 5:06 PM UTC

The trend of shutting down / charging steeply for API access has fundamentally changed the internet.

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Post by flykespice » Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 5:13 PM UTC

rasengan wrote: post #5

The trend of shutting down / charging steeply for API access has fundamentally changed the internet.

Back to the old web scrapping you go.

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Post by throw0101a » Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 5:16 PM UTC

Many moons ago Twitter used to have RSS (Atom?) feeds for each user so you could use any old news aggregator to keep up to date.

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Post by add-sub-mul-div » Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 5:18 PM UTC

rasengan wrote: post #5

The trend of shutting down / charging steeply for API access has fundamentally changed the internet.

I honestly don't know what to think of this time. On one hand it's sad in principle to see Reddit and Twitter lock down to the point they have.

But on the other hand they'd both already become cesspools by that time, and I was still visiting them daily. And now I've quit them both which is a good thing.

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Post by criticalfault » Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 5:18 PM UTC

Users should just get off this continued tragedy and API access wouldn't be an issue

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Post by OmarShehata » Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 5:21 PM UTC

criticalfault wrote: post #9

Users should just get off this continued tragedy and API access wouldn't be an issue

A lot of users/communities are stuck because of network effects & the long history of posts (they still reference them, like living wikis)

These pipeline tools can help people migrate if they want without losing that history & network (my prediction is once people see what's possible with an open API, that'll further motivate user migration, or for twitter to open up again)