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Twitter's hostility comes down to jealously defending their business model. They declared war on third party clients about a decade ago, and that hasn't really
by Macha 5y ago
Twitter's hostility comes down to jealously defending their business model. They declared war on third party clients about a decade ago, and that hasn't really changed. You'll note the API available under the new, looser, rules does not include any equivalent of the home timeline endpoint, which would be pretty essential to the client use case. A third party client could do things like not show their embedded ads (promoted tweets), or display the timeline in a manner more useful to the user than to Twitter's engagement metrics, and Twitter don't like that.
They've been pretty ok towards e.g. making your CSR tool interface with twitter to answer support requests over Twitter.
This doesn't really strike me as a change in direction, though it does look easier for people in the second category to get started.
- malshe 5y agoBy any chance do you know whether V2 has an endpoint for bookmarks?
- andypiper 5y agoThe bookmarks API is being worked on and is on the roadmap https://t.co/roadmap https://t.co/roadmap
- Macha 5y agoThe v2 docs are here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/migrate/twitter-api-endpoint-map https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/migrate/tw... There doesn't look to be. I think it has been updated in the last few hours - they've added a link to a trello board created 4 hours ago, and I don't remember a [COMING SOON] replacement for home timeline being there previously. So maybe they're going to add more endpoints than currently exist, but it'll take a lot to not have people worried about another rug pull.
- malshe 5y agoI had seen the api endpoints earlier and noticed that bookmarks were absent. But as I am not a professional user of this API, I wanted to see whether more knowledgeable people know anything I may have missed. Thanks for confirming it!
- TheRealNGenius 5y agowhat business model?