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Re:Twitter delays shutdown of legacy APIs as it launches a r... by chatmasta on Thursday May 17, 2018 @06:01AM (#17090038)
No, but impressions do require downloading content from a server, which can be tracked. The trouble would be cases where apps are preloading content, so it's downloaded but the user might not have seen it yet.
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Re:Twitter delays shutdown of legacy APIs as it launches a r... by nkozyra on Thursday May 17, 2018 @07:01AM (#17090267)
Or - as is often the case - the consumer is caching api responses for some period.
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