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What? How would that be hard to determine? You need an API key to use the API.
by nathancahill 11y ago
What? How would that be hard to determine? You need an API key to use the API.
- cinquemb 11y agoHere, have some api keys: https://github.com/search?l=php&p=4&q=access_token+access_token_secret+twitter&ref=searchresults&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93 https://github.com/search?l=php&p=4&q=access_token+access_to...
- MichaelGG 11y agoAnd how would Twitter know which API key somesitewithtweets.com is using? There are ways, but if the API key user is careful and doesn't allow arbitrary searches (so Twitter can't try searching #someguid and then kill that account) it'd be pretty hard for them to figure it out. They could try adding fake deleted tweets on a per-account basis, then seeing who publishes those. A simple two-account double check or manual intervention would prevent that from leaking info.
- incepted 11y agoSo what? How do you connect that API key to some anonymous web site that saves deleted tweets? The only way I can think of is for Twitter to publish different deleted tweets to different API keys and then see which one the web site surfaces. Not very hard but not trivial either.