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A new and improved Twitter API
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Re: A new and improved Twitter API
#12Nothing to see here. This isn't an announcement, it's a pre-announcement. Empty PR, "We actually love developers (despite our sordid history), yadda yadda". Almost all of the details are TBD.
Re: A new and improved Twitter API
#13All these years and they still don’t have a serious API offering.
Re: A new and improved Twitter API
#14These folks from Twitter might suffer from a major disconnection from reality, they burned several bridges of trust over the years and now they just write a small disclaimer about them discovering the hack from this week and the new API apparently does not address issues people had with it in the past (that were used to choke 3rd-party apps). Kudos to the developers working on it directly though, I suppose it takes a lot of effort and the managers responsibilities are not yours to take home but they need to actually regain trust before anything else, no matter how fancy the API is. Some kind of "LTS" or long term contract for the API versions would be a start.
Re: A new and improved Twitter API
#15No word on the most important thing: the limits. Current limits that keep becoming stricter and stricter make the API unusable.
I was looking into doing something for my own use, and you can't even retrieve your own list of followers or blocked users in one go! You have to paginate it, each page is counted against the rate limit!
Re: A new and improved Twitter API
#16No word on the most important thing: the limits. Current limits that keep becoming stricter and stricter make the API unusable.
Limit is your wallet
No joke. I maintain a bot that interfaces with the Twitter API to take in tweets and post tweets from specific users in chat channels.
I read this blog post to determine a) what I need to do to port to the new API and b) how much this privilege of using Twitter will cost me, and it is mum on both of those aspects.
Absolutely brilliant, Twitter.
Re: A new and improved Twitter API
#17These folks from Twitter might suffer from a major disconnection from reality, they burned several bridges of trust over the years and now they just write a small disclaimer about them discovering the hack from this week and the new API apparently does not address issues people had with it in the past (that were used to choke 3rd-party apps). Kudos to the developers working on it directly though, I suppose it takes a…
Exactly. What's their goal with the new API? Will they continue to be hostile to Twitter app developers?
Years ago, they made a distinct choice to become a business/celebrity platform, and actively moved away from the utility it could have been. That move cemented my view of Twitter as a dead-end for technology.
Re: A new and improved Twitter API
#18Everyone in here bad mouthing Twitter is just feeding into the hype machine. This is why these garbage companies exist - they've convinced us they're all worth talking about when they're junk. The more we ignore them the more likely they go away.
Re: A new and improved Twitter API
#19Spoiler: It doesn't mention the word "client" at all. This is not going to bring back the features they took away in 2018.
Re: A new and improved Twitter API
#20Like to think I'm quite positive when it comes to companies putting things out there, but still can't bring myself to trust Twitter's actions when it comes to their API.
I built and sold (albeit for a very tiny sum of money) one of those text-extender mini-blog tools back in the day off the back of the API. It felt easy, clean and part of the ecosystem.
Every action they took degraded that trust. I know they're a business and the data (and primarily their advertising serving and monitoring tech) is their lifeblood, but... fool me once...