“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API”

Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by pessimizer on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:35AM (#34641487)

The website is awful. It's horrific. It was the worst site I visited regularly until I started using Nitter instances. I'd rather not know what is going on than go to it. I wish they'd wind the UI back 10 years, to back when it was pleasant to browse.

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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by kibwen on Friday February 03, 2023 @10:24AM (#34642238)

I look forward to someone teaching Elon Musk what version control is, resulting in him wholesale rolling back Twitter's entire stack to 2008. At last, Twitter is written in Ruby again!

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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by flir on Friday February 03, 2023 @11:19AM (#34643171)

I too miss the fail whale.

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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by Consultant32452 on Friday February 03, 2023 @02:02PM (#34646235)

Do you remember, I think it was 2020, when there was a big "hack" and tons of blue check accounts started posting fraud links?

Two important take-aways from that:

1) The attackers just pulled the old "Hey, I'm from IT service desk and need your password."

2) Apparently every engineer had god mode in production

I can't imagine what scary monsters are in that codebase.

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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by hgsgm on Friday February 03, 2023 @11:27AM (#34643321)

The point is that the website is an API, irrelevant if it is a good or bad UI.

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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by omoikane on Friday February 03, 2023 @11:59AM (#34643910)

Depending on twitter's pricing, this might not be worthwhile.

Scraping web pages is a last resort for when proper APIs are not available.

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