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I'm pretty sure you know exactly what the poster meant ...
> I'm pretty sure you know exactly what the poster meant ... No, I don't. It obviously is trying to say something about accessibility and SpaceX, but I don't see how the sense of accessbility being discussed in the thread even applies to SpaceX, much less what claim is being made.
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> basically a week to decide what to do with your dev project Even less for some. It seems further apps are being shut down in the run up because they have "violated Twitter Rules and policies”. Such as movetodon [0] - locked out today - a service which helps you connect to the fediverse accounts of twitter users you follow. And reports that debirdify is closed out too. [0] https://mastodon.social/@Tibor/109800904950…
All things considered, that’s not surprising that a company doesn’t want their free API/resources used to make moving to a competitor easier.
Okay, so this one is nearly making me buy into those conspiracy theories that Musk is deliberately breaking Twitter because 4d chess (only nearly; this is incompetence rather than anything else). There's an argument to be had whether it makes sense for Twitter to have a free API tier. I personally think that it's obvious it should: - A lot of Twitter content/engagement is created by bots, and people quote-tweeting sa…
> If there's a free tier, hobbyists and students can do interesting things with them, and this drives innovation. What are some examples of innovative things that hobbyist and students have done with Twitter?
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> Use of paid-only APIs virtually always stagnates. You should add the keyword: expensive APIs. Nobody cares about pay $10 a month to experiment and use the API, especially if it makes things easier to get and not have to explain to some Twitter service why you need access. It's when they make it expensive that nobody will use it.
So, bad news on that: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1621259936524300289?s=46...
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> Maybe make it heavier cached ("slower" time before new tweets are available, less infrastructure costs) but wouldn't disable it fully. This. I had a brief flirtation with working with people using the Twitter API for research purposes. A very large majority of them didn't care about having the latest tweets coming off the firehose, but instead getting access to all the old data. At least at the time, the latter was…
Delivering old tweets is actually more expensive than real-time because nothing is cached. Streaming access is pretty much all served out of memory. I used to lead the search and historical API team at Twitter.
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Musks promises of cutting down on bots only mattered to him and to the degree he made a big deal about it. He could have declared victory whenever and been done with it. Who would have argued.
I think people would have argued with him. There are people that fawn on him one day and then complain that 'the algorithm has shadowbanned them again' the next, and he spends a surprising amount of time engaging with them. It's like some weird parody of an abusive relationship, with the world's erstwhile richest man and uber-CEO earnestly and repeatedly appeasing influencers like 'Catturd.' To an extent I think this…
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I think Twitter was never profitable to start with.
If Twitter pulled the layoffs Musk did, without having taken on his debt, it would have posted profits that quarter.
The unfortunate bit though is I started using this in college when I had very little money. College students aren't going to cough up money each month to make a meme bot, and this might change the culture of twitter in a negative way
Does Nitter use the API? > Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)[0] Not sure what that means 0. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
They use a leaked token from one of the mobile clients that twitter can't/won't revoke.
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If I recall the Matt Levine newsletter correctly the banks have already discounted the debt so I would think they'd be happy to sell it for less than the original $ value, either to Musk or Musk associates.
As I mentioned, it's already down 40% last I saw. And they will take less, but they aren't going to give it away. One, it sets a bad precedence, and two it's bad business. ML also mentioned he hoped Twitter would stiff the banks on the first interest payment like they have been doing all their other creditors. It would have been an entertaining game of chicken. The other unknown is if Elon really wants to dump more m…