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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by freejazz on Friday October 28, 2022 @04:37PM (#33377583)
This is just kicking the can down the next level on the issue. They can't tell which bots are bots so what difference does it make it if the solution isn't to ban them but to just limit them? The problem is identifying the bots.
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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by bee_rider on Friday October 28, 2022 @05:13PM (#33377994)
Without an API, the default "I want to write a bot for Twitter" path forward is to automate the human UI -- to some extent, this makes you look like somebody who is trying to evade bot detection.

I suspect there are lots of people in the class of "wants to do something interesting, isn't particularly interested in being malicious but doesn't mind breaking the rules." Maybe an official bot API would dry up that ecosystem?

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