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Re:Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension by santiagobasulto on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @02:57AM (#29806336)
How do you source the data to provide such analytics? Do you have to be constantly scraping Twitter?
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Re:Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension by trungdq88 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @03:19AM (#29806476)
Yes :)

On average, I send 3 requests/minute/user to Twitter API.

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Re:Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension by kubami on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @07:18AM (#29808059)
So you're not really "scraping" Twitter, just using their API (but carefully not to go over rate-limiter/flagger)?
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Re:Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension by trungdq88 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:00PM (#29817656)
Yes, I only use the official API.
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