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Just innovate one thing: show a counter how many new replies you have since last visit.
This might interest you, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22930391 [dang]: "Push notifications seem to jack up the nervous system in a way that's good for engagement but not necessarily for users..."
From Elon's twitter ( https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674942336583757825?s=20 ) "This will be unlocked shortly. Per my earlier post, drastic & immediate action was necessary due to EXTREME levels of data scraping. Almost every company doing AI, from startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth, was scraping vast amounts of data. It is rather galling to have to bring large numbers of servers online on an…
The money printing and tech investing bonanza has allowed many programmers to flex their programming expertise without considering real-world resource costs. Now those bills come knocking and everyone acts like the previous utopian paradigm was somehow sustainable. I'm calling bullshit. If the fediverse ever had this kind of scraping pressure, it would collapse in minutes.
It’s naive to say that this is the inevitable result of wider forces. If Elon had never offered to buy Twitter, or had managed to weasel out of it, you can bet the API would still be a thing and the login wall would be much as it was a year ago.
(And Twitter won't want to allow caches or archives since if course they could be used to get around read rate limits)
To the extent that tweets (does Twitter not call them that anymore?) are an important part of the public record, including being able to verify whether someone really did tweet a certain thing at a certain time, this is a little bit scary.
And just generally for our ability to preserve historical record, already threatened by the digital world, and apparently getting worse instead of better.
for the desperate: https://syndication.twitter.com/srv/timeline-profile/screen-... add username at end from https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ and https://gist.githubusercontent.com/robotblake/a0f020381c1a91...
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Please don't throw around the word "stealing" so loosely. Scraping data from a public website is not "stealing". It might be a violation of the terms of service, but then you have the whole issue of click-through (formerly shrink-wrap) licenses and contracts of adhesion. If someone isn't vetting you and potentially signing you to a more meaningful contract before giving you access, for free, to data, then using that…
Heres the thing about the ToC and licenses: Bots aren't people and can't read nor consent. They just consume. Any page which can be served without first displaying a ToC or other terms which explicitly prohibit access is not protected by a ToC or other license from scraping, as they can be considered a Point of First Contact in each case, as the bot has selected each link from a simple aggregation of all links it enc…
for the desperate: https://syndication.twitter.com/srv/timeline-profile/screen-... add username at end from https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ and https://gist.githubusercontent.com/robotblake/a0f020381c1a91...
Broken as of July 3rd :(
(check out https://rsshub.app/twitter/user/elonmusk)
For the very desperate, this is still "working" for some reason: https://tweettunnel.com/ggreenwald
At the end of each snippet is a t.co link with a /{tweet id} at the end. You'll have to click on it and copy the status/tweet id from the url after the "%2Fstatus%" part. Paste that number into an embed link: https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=16763153424...
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It feels like the "natural" development of VC funded websites - they offer a service that's heavily subsidized and losing money hand over fist to displace other services (I guess in Reddit's case it was self-hosted forums and similar?). But that's clearly not sustainable, it's inevitable they'll pivot to monetizing the service - and that's clearly going to make it less attractive than the heavily-subsidized version p…
The bigger problem is the plan was basically infinte growth and was only possible due to 0% intrest rates. The last 15 years has been a weird fever dream of free money, now that intrest is a thing again suddenly the infinte spending expansion and figure out profitablity later model is no longer sustianable and reddit twitter google meta ect suddenly have to actually make money again. Basically the internet everyone h…
This is actually the most mood-lightening comment I've seen on this matter. A return to the internet of 15 years ago doesn't sound so bad to me. (Of course, the mood darkens again when I remember that it won't really be that, because, e.g., that internet of 15 years ago couldn't handle the bot-spam of today.)
Noticed this morning that nitter was down and twitter made tweets completely unavailable until you're logged in. Very annoying. I wonder what happened to embedded tweets?
I just made an updated tool that should work Replace http://twitter.com by http://traittor.net
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672
to
https://traittor.net/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672
Is normally bypassing no registered account and limit by day.
Have fun :)