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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by 101011 on Friday October 28, 2022 @05:31PM (#33378180)
So trivial that nobody has ever solved it at scale.

If there's a flow that a human can go through to oauth with an application, then there's a way to bypass that same flow through a bot.

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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by andrepd on Friday October 28, 2022 @05:56PM (#33378465)
How is that not a problem for the official interface then?
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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by pasquinelli on Friday October 28, 2022 @06:50PM (#33378951)
well, it is. so the problem is the quest to get rid of bots.
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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by kshacker on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:06PM (#33379117)
Let me solve it as a technical person. Whether management wants it or not is not my forte.

You want an API because other apps are better. Let those apps partner with Twitter to allow only humans and not a second order API. If they do that, they get kicked out faster than Fortnite got kicked out. Both Twitter and the API user need to own the relationship and guarantee its sanctity so it will likely require an investment bigger than $99 to be paid by the API user (app) to Twitter.

So you will not have infinite API apps, just a few of them, those who can pay the cost of providing and validating the API.

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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by dmitriid on Saturday October 29, 2022 @03:11AM (#33381757)
> You want an API because other apps are better. Let those apps partner with Twitter to allow only humans and not a second order API

I want to write a blog engine that posts a summary and a link to my twitter timeline automatically.

Do I have to "partner with Twitter"? How will that look?

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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by frant-hartm on Saturday October 29, 2022 @03:43AM (#33381915)
No problem with such account being marked as Bot, right?
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