Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far

Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by giobox on Friday October 28, 2022 @10:37PM (#33380453)

I think you hugely over-estimate the importance of “developer APIs” to the number of bots on twitter.

You’re never going to really fully defeat browser automation or HTTP request playback with automatically generated payloads. No one technically needs an API if a web interface exists to automate something. It’s easier with an official API sure, but not super hard without.

Indeed, a truly malicious bot farm would avoid the API altogether and just fake web client requests to look as much like the real thing as possible.

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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by Heyso on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:28AM (#33382133)

How about making changes to the interface html structure/ids and same for the api. Will break any program using it, but won't bother users. Now record what accounts are silenced by that, do it multiples times and ypu have an idea who is a bot ?

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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by no_time on Saturday October 29, 2022 @02:15PM (#33386577)

If a screen reader can navigate it, a bot can do it too. And they must comply with accessibility regulations.

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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by giobox on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:52PM (#33387853)

> browser automation

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