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Re:Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose by thinkloop on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:10AM (#19269579)
How would that work, I couldn't find much on the web?
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Re:Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose by Thaxll on Thursday February 28, 2019 @07:56AM (#19270998)
Same problem as the mobile app for Twitter, they can't block people that are not logged in the mobile app so they don't rate limit them.
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Re:Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose by thinkloop on Thursday February 28, 2019 @09:57PM (#19277590)
How come they can block people on the web again?
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Re:Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose by dewey on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:41AM (#19269697)
Probably by doing a mitm attack on the mobile app and using the headers used there.
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