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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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