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Twitter's API is down?

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Post by onion2k »

jsjohnst wrote: post #235
onion2k wrote: post #217

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You can't announce anything if you've fired the comms team.

> You can't announce anything if you've fired the comms team. Elon fired the Tesla PR team and yet announcements still are made, usually as Tweets from him. It sucks, but a comms team isn’t necessary assuming you are ok with substandard communication.

and yet announcements still are made

Elon's tweets aren't the same as announcements from Twitter. He tweets as an individual. Twitter, the company, is a blackhole as far as comms goes. There is no news in any official capacity from the company any more.

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Post by Hamuko »

Mindwipe wrote: post #232
actualwitch wrote: post #218

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Doing this requires a fair amount of development time, especially when you can break something else with this and you previously removed all the guardrails.

That didn't stop Facebook doing it (and breaking all kinds of stuff in the process).

Did Facebook lay off half of the company before they did it?

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Post by nkozyra »

black_puppydog wrote: post #167
mrtksn wrote: post #155

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Does anything stops devs from using the Web interface instead of the API? Sure it makes it a bit more challenging because parsing is involved but AFAIK it is completely legal to parse and display HTML output however you want. It's essentially like a browser add-on. I wonder if Twitter can be killed by the "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy? So: 1. Make a client that combines Mastadon/Others and Twitter feeds, mak…

you get into an armsrace where twitter will obfuscate the markup to just wear out the scraper devs. which they can, because $$$

They don't do this when they can just disable the app without being logged in.

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Post by majewsky »

mrtksn wrote: post #200
samwillis wrote: post #196

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While for reading that works, there is an easy why via posting to spot people use that app. They can change at any moment the input names so that when posting a tweet you are exposing that you are using the scrapping client.

Remember that you are loading full Twitter website in the background. You will use their original interface to post Tweets.

Yes, but the app is not a human and will likely interact with the website in a more predictable (and thus, detectable) way than the human itself would.

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Post by nkozyra »

misnome wrote: post #237
satvikpendem wrote: post #203

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That is why companies should always stay vigilant about platform risk. In general, own your platform, don't built your business on someone else's platform, it is too easy for them to deplatform you on their whim.

It's worked for them for the past 12 years

Sure. But remember when the API went from

"build something cool with our data!"

to

"build something cool with a limited set of data"

to

"pay us a ton of money for full data"

to

"pay us a ton of money for full data if you meet these internal requirements that assuredly mean we will monitor to make sure you don't compete with us"

to ... well, we'll have to see.

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Post by mrtksn »

majewsky wrote: post #245
mrtksn wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember that you are loading full Twitter website in the background. You will use their original interface to post Tweets.

Yes, but the app is not a human and will likely interact with the website in a more predictable (and thus, detectable) way than the human itself would.

But you also have a human using the app, you can transfer the interactions with your app to the Twitter's Web UI.

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Post by dudul »

esperent wrote: post #105
sho wrote: post #18

This might be the last straw. I flat out refuse to use their horrible app with its nonsense algorithmic timeline. Give it a few hours to see if it's permanent but if it is, I expect a huge wave of new mastodon users..

Let's be real, if your "last straw" moment wasn't several weeks ago it's unlikely this is gonna be it. But if it is, shame on you. All the silencing of journalists, banning accounts for saying "mastodon", or saying anything negative about Tesla, or criticizing Musk in any way, that didn't do it. But now you have been mildly inconvenienced and it's the last straw. Really?

What happened to "it's a private company! Just build your own!"?

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Post by raspberry1337 »

manholio wrote: post #165
raspberry1337 wrote: post #138

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They don't have the scale to sway large parts of the public opinion, so they are irrelevant. Also, what you call "left" might simply be the truth, and it's very hard to fight against that. For an example of toxic ideological delusion in the left camp you can see the harm done to adolescents by the gender nuts, it's absolutely out of control on Reddit and there will be reckoning day with its many victims.

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Post by rightbyte »

FranzFerdiNaN wrote: post #49
philliphaydon wrote: post #30

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I disagree, the day he took over twitter people were saying "it wont be up this weekend" "it will be down in a week" "it will be offline in 2 weeks"... yet the reality is, its up and running well. The system is running as good as before. The only thing I've noticed is theres more ad's than usual. ---- Edit: Currently there isn't any outage of Twitter as far as anyone knows. It looks like 3rd party apps have been kick…

It’s running well because the old guard built it so well. Musk threw them all out, so it will slowly but surely degrade. There was a reason Twitter had such a large workforce.

> It’s running well because the old guard built it so well.

Twitter is a shitshow technically. Sub-tweets don't nest right and change order in a arbitrary way.

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