Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by londons_explore on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:49PM (#36545446)

I think it means "someone is crawling our data, perhaps because we made our API cost money, and we don't like it".

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by hedora on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:30PM (#36545758)

Ironically, my initial reaction was “Oh crap. Public saftey orgs use this to broadcast alerts.”

My second reaction was “I wonder how hard it would be to take a list of twitter handles and scrape their feeds into an S3 bucket that’s fronted with a CDN.”

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by PostOnce on Saturday July 01, 2023 @06:03AM (#36548483)

It went from $0/mo (as it had been for a long time) to $5000/mo overnight with no middle ground (for access to streaming data, no matter how small the volume).

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