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Re:Tweetbot Is Broken by samwillis on Friday January 13, 2023 @05:55AM (#34366184)
While for reading that works, there is an easy why via posting to spot people use that app. They can change at any moment the input names so that when posting a tweet you are exposing that you are using the scrapping client.
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Re:Tweetbot Is Broken by mrtksn on Friday January 13, 2023 @06:01AM (#34366219)
Remember that you are loading full Twitter website in the background. You will use their original interface to post Tweets.
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Re:Tweetbot Is Broken by majewsky on Friday January 13, 2023 @07:13AM (#34366728)
Yes, but the app is not a human and will likely interact with the website in a more predictable (and thus, detectable) way than the human itself would.
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Re:Tweetbot Is Broken by mrtksn on Friday January 13, 2023 @07:18AM (#34366750)
But you also have a human using the app, you can transfer the interactions with your app to the Twitter's Web UI.
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