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A comment on “Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API”. Parent comment

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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