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Twitter breaks their own search page with API Deprecation

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Re: Twitter breaks their own search page with API Deprecation

#5

I've never seen that search page URL before. As long as I can remember, it has been http://twitter.com/search (which still works).

Not that I went there often, but I always got to search via "http://search.twitter.com"... earlier today it was returning a 404 [1], now this weird API deprecation message. I just wanted to type a query in via my browser!

Strange that they didn't even put in a redirect.

[1] reported to Twitter about 12 hours ago: https://twitter.com/gojomo/status/344515216517767168

Re: Twitter breaks their own search page with API Deprecation

#9
post #4

Not really. Deprecation of "search.twitter.com" was announced months before. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/faq#17750

That documents retirement of an API. Someone visiting "search.twitter.com" in a browser wants to see a web page. It would seem sensible to redirect them to a place where they can do that.