Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 18 minutes ago, Soapy FFC said: He is a fud of the highest order. As are those who “follow” the fud. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 The cops will have a hard time tracking down all the 14 year old boys who 'borrowed' their mum's bank card to subscribe to Hustler's University. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Not content with sabotaging 3rd party apps twitter doubles down on it's every cent is a prisoner mantra Twitter is eliminating access to its API, but the once-free comms integration will still be available to those who want it – for a price. "Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead," Twitter's developer account said this morning. Claiming its dataset is "among the world's most powerful," Twitter said it was committed to enabling "fast and comprehensive access" to devs wishing to create features and apps linked to the social media platform or draw on its data, more details of which would be shared next week. That's all the Elon Musk-owned company had to say on the matter, so now it's up to those who still have Twitter API access – researchers, data scientists and the like – to determine how they'll cope with the loss of access to data necessary to their work. Paid Twitter API access has previously been available for those with heavy use needs. App developers who used Twitter's API had a similar rude awakening on January 14 when Twitter killed a number of third-party clients with no official word as to why. Justification came later, on January 17, when Twitter said it was beginning to enforce "long-standing API rules" that didn't appear in the site's developer agreement for another couple of days. On January 19, the developer agreement was updated to add language making it against the terms of the deal to use Twitter's APIs "to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications." Several popular third-party Twitter applications, like Iconfactory's Twitterrific and Tapbots' Tweetbot, have been discontinued by their developers in response. Others that remain working, like TweetDeck wrapper Tweeten, have expressed solidarity with developers affected by the decision and have said they're unlikely to continue updating the app. Iconfactory cofounder Gedeon Maheux told The Register that, while it looks like Twitter learned from the "debacle of just switching off third-party access," it's but a tiny improvement for the "thousands of developers out there" who are still going to find themselves without access. Maheux said he wasn't surprised Twitter decided to remove free API access, but he was still upset. "Twitter has thousands of outside developers who have built useful tools, games, and analytics on the platform that will now all have to be scrapped," Maheux told us. Cutting off API access looks like it's just the latest in Musk's attempts to turn Twitter profitable. The billionaire is curretly facing lawsuits accusing him of leaving the company's bills unpaid, while late last year one of his first moves as boss was to make verification checkmarks available for $8 a month, causing a spate of brand impersonations from which it's unclear the company has recovered. As to whether the move will make Twitter money, that's not clear at all. Maheux doesn't appear to believe so, and said Twitter is squandering what good will remains between the platform and developers. "Few if any of these small devs will be able to afford the kinds of access they had prior which will only speed Twitter's eventual self destruction," Maheux opined. Twitter didn't respond to our questions. ® 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 8 hours ago, GNU_Linux said: Not content with sabotaging 3rd party apps twitter doubles down on it's every cent is a prisoner mantra In layman's terms what does this mean? Anyone accessing Twitter/Tweets via anything other than the Twitter app will have to pay? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbaxters Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 14 hours ago, GNU_Linux said: Not content with sabotaging 3rd party apps twitter doubles down on it's every cent is a prisoner mantra Good. Hopefully it over prices itself into oblivion, the pollution that it is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 (edited) 11 hours ago, Swarley said: In layman's terms what does this mean? Anyone accessing Twitter/Tweets via anything other than the Twitter app will have to pay? In laymans terms an API (application programming interface) is a way for two or more computers to interact with each other. Use of the API enables an individual or organization to do lots of different things one of those happens to be 3rd party apps. It's not users having to fork up money but rather developers/organizations who use the twitter api for whatever purpose they need. Edited February 3, 2023 by GNU_Linux 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/03/some-popular-accounts-likely-to-disappear-from-twitter-as-elon-musk-ends-free-access-to-api 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbaxters Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, GNU_Linux said: In laymans terms an API (application programming interface) is a way for two or more computers to interact with each other. Use of the API enables an individual or organization to do lots of different things one of those happens to be 3rd party apps. It's not users having to fork up money but rather developers/organizations who use the twitter api for whatever purpose they need. Wish I'd read this post before doing the daily quiz last night! "In computing terms, for what does the A stand in API?" Think I went for Applied. Edited February 3, 2023 by jimbaxters 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 I'm told it's rugby season again 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 2 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said: I'm told it's rugby season again It's not just rugby, has Steven Pressley finally started a trend? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Forest_Fifer Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 I saw this and immediately thought of P&B 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 USA USA USA.... -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mark Connolly Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 12 minutes ago, Venti said: TBF, I would definitely watch that 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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