IsMyXFeedFcked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You

Re:IsMyXFeedFcked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You by Havoc on Sunday January 19, 2025 @05:54AM (#42755922)

>Record and upload a 1-2 minute screen recording of you scrolling through your X/Twitter feed.

Is that really the only way to get hold of someones feed? It's neat from a tech perspective & very AI...but seems rather cumbersome

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Re:IsMyXFeedFcked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You by mingus88 on Sunday January 19, 2025 @06:17AM (#42756062)

Would you rather give a random 3rd party API access to your social media? Would you trust X to not leak more than just the first few pages of your feed?

This way is clumsy but I appreciate that you have absolute control over what you are sharing.

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Re:IsMyXFeedFcked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You by natdude on Sunday January 19, 2025 @07:25AM (#42756421)

Yeah I tried for a long time on this! Initially I attempted APIs - but they're locked down and you can't get access to user's feeds.

Secondly, I tried a chrome extension, but these don't work on mobile devices (80% of social media users) so it was redundant (plus very brittle as it depended on specific DOM elements). Also, a lot of content is video/audio, which isn't well captured by static analysis.

A video is a bit annoying to take, but yes, it was the only solution I found!

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