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Re:Dear “API providers”, I don’t want a relationship. by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday October 07, 2012 @06:31AM (#4623037)
Yeah. I wanted to read some tweets, but apparently I now need a stupid API token and have to do OAuth! What happened to the good old days of session-less read only-mode APIs?! :(
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Re:Dear “API providers”, I don’t want a relationship. by tommorris on Sunday October 07, 2012 @06:33AM (#4623044)
Well, in the case of Twitter: Justin Bieber happened.
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Re:Dear “API providers”, I don’t want a relationship. by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday October 07, 2012 @06:42AM (#4623056)
Eh?
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Re:Dear “API providers”, I don’t want a relationship. by tommorris on Sunday October 07, 2012 @06:48AM (#4623066)
Justin Bieber is my internal shorthand for: Twitter's API changes are based around the fact that they care more about celebrities and media than around being a good web API citizen or whatever. ;-)
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