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Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:

Twitter finally announced their “Basic" API access. Completely useless as expected.

Things of note:
They totally disabled access to the V1.1 API (probably because they had no one that could implement these limits on it).
The V2 Tweet Cap went from free 2M Tweets per month, to 10K Tweets per month for $100.
The rate limits on a bunch of calls have been slashed significantly.
The sign up link for the Enterprise API, you know the thing that costs $42k/month, is just a Google Form doc…

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derek the solarboi

@paul hilariously, whenever I have to try to purchase a part for a Tesla solar system that needs repair, that can only be "ordered" through a Google Form as well. 💀

And I never hear back from them ever

Harrison

@paul I honestly can’t believe what’s happened to Twitter, but I’m glad mastodon (and ivory) are here

Григорий Клюшников

At this point they could as well not offer an official API and people who really need it would reverse engineer their way through.

Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:

Starting May 15th, only verified accounts will be able to not follow my @elonmusk account.

The is the only realistic way to address my waning popularity. It is otherwise a hopeless losing battle.

Replying to me will require verification for same reason.

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Xenops

Why anyone remains on Twitter is beyond me at this point.

🛒 ᗰYᑕᗩᖇT 🛒

@paul So when starts the $1 per letter per tweet?

Tim Chuma

@paul how to piss away your money. Couldn't he have cured cancer?

Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:

I'm confused this article talks about how you'll be able to show/hide the blue checkmark, but totally ignores the “government ID" requirement? Is that not the far bigger story?

Also how gullible do you have to be to actually pay $ just so your ID can be included in the, sure to be coming soon, data breach?
theverge.com/2023/3/24/2365509

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Jorge Stolfi

@paul

The prioritizing of Blue subscribers in other uers' timelines will be attractive mostly to those who expect a monetary return from their tweets: chiefly promoters of scams...

JustMrLarz

@paul IDs were originally a part of the verification process at the very beginning years ago. It isn’t being discussed more probably because that isn’t a new part of the process.

Michael Gartenberg

@paul
Very, very gullible or a diehard Musk follower which is basically the same thing.

Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:

I think this onboarding update ended up coming out pretty nicely. Let's you create a new account without a lot of fuss.

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martinkroeger

@paul Truly the best app. Man, I can't count the times I've reflexively tried opening Tweetbot these past few days, only to be reminded of the dangers of combining extreme wealth with callousness.

Brian Drell 🇺🇦

@paul @mark Get Ivory submitted! I’ve got some recurring revenue I’d like to give you.

Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:

I want to publicly apologize to Twitter for breaking its long-standing API rule of _______.

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Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:

Finally some clarity we apparently broke the long standing rule of "use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications”.

I guess I didn't realize long standing actually means a couple hours ago, once again I'm deeply sorry.

engadget.com/twitter-new-devel

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Schlep

@paul thanks for all the work on it over the years. One of the few subs that felt like the least I could do. Looking forward to @ivory, just wish I knew more people on here lol.

hedgie

@paul Ridiculous behaviour but sadly not surprising at this point. I feel for app developers though.

Matthew Snyder

@paul I was able to use Tweetbot for a short bit, now it says it can’t authenticate me.

This is some BS.

Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:

DF has a good summation of this latest revelation.

daringfireball.net/linked/2023

Even without these leaks if you add up the lack of communication, only impacting the top 25-50 Twitter API clients and clients showing up as suspended in the dev. dashboard. The only conclusion at this point is that it was intentional and not any kind of bug.

For the record, still no official or even unofficial communication from anyone within Twitter.

Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:

Almost 24 hours later and still no official/unofficial info from inside Twitter. I'm going to continue as if this was all done on purpose.

What now? Ivory goes into hyper mode with just the absolute minimum 3-4 things that have to be done finished up and then off to Apple. Probably going to be a bunch of things I'm not super happy with but I guess we'll fix it in post.

Hopefully everyone knows what we're capable of and can live with some, hopefully not long lived, rough edges/missing features.

Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:

I think the thing that bothers me the most is the lack of communications. If you are going to kill people off, own it. Don't just do it and act like nothing has happened.

Even during the darkest Twitter 1.0 days they were pretty open about what they were doing. I remember getting a call prior to the 4 quadrants token limit where they explained what was going to happen and answered questions. I wasn't happy but at least felt there was respect.

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Dr. Jorge Caballero

@paul good thing the security of that API was improved by ::checks notes:: enumerated verified status

DELETED

@paul maybe that is why I’ve been getting so many spam calls lately…

Oliver Wintzheimer

@paul Elon tries to find new funding opportunities. 2$ is better then 0$.

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Fernando Mateus

@paul Now I know why I didn’t get it. Thanks.

Andreas Dantz

@paul could have saved me a few minutes of refreshing if only the Fediverse would be a little more realtime 😀

Neil K 此内

@paul counting myself as actually lucky this time in that case

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