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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by anigbrowl on Friday February 03, 2023 @01:36PM (#34645799)
Agreed, but I don't think scam and spam bots are using the API anyway - rather puppeteering tools built on Selenium or any of many scraping libraries and toolchains.
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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by ehsankia on Friday February 03, 2023 @01:56PM (#34646130)
Even if they were, who's more likely to pay for an API, the scammer making shit ton of money from tricking twitter users, or the hobby dev making a cool integration with Twitter that brings people to Twitter?
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