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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by papito on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:53AM (#34641738)
That is horrible. I quite often click on embedded tweets and then end up spending more time on the site. It's literally a cheap lead in for ad exposure. Musk does not seem to understand how this whole Internet thing works.

"If Musk wants to know about money, I’ll tell him. She launched into a technical explanation of the ­company’s data-center efficiency, curious to see if he would follow along. Instead, he interrupted. “I was writing C programs in the ’90s,” he said dismissively. “I understand how ­computers work.”

https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover...

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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by tee_0 on Friday February 03, 2023 @11:31AM (#34643399)
You believe that there will never be embedded tweets again because twitter is going to charge an unknown amount of money for their API? You have musk derangement syndrome dude
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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by amanaplanacanal on Friday February 03, 2023 @02:39PM (#34646711)
He said he wants $100 a month, whatever that’s worth.
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