Show HN: I built a minimal Twitter web app with few rules

Re:Show HN: I built a minimal Twitter web app with few rules by g_p on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:43PM (#23304762)

I'd second this. Although from memory (and I didn't re-check this so I might be wrong) Twitter's API has quite strict user limits, in order to prevent third party clients from gaining significant marketshare (and thus spoiling their carefully planned curated feed to raise user engagement, with ads injected throughout).

I think that has proved an issue for "alternative" Twitter apps in the past, or at least did for quite a long time.

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Re:Show HN: I built a minimal Twitter web app with few rules by ramkarthikk on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:53PM (#23304844)

Yes, this is a problem, especially if the app becomes huge. They also have some strict rate limits. For ex: The endpoint to get mentions is restricted to 100,000 requests per day, which is very less for a popular app. There are ways to get mentions using their search endpoint which has a more lenient rate limit but it is an inconvenience and a bit hacky.

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