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I have observed that twitter's bot hits links within seconds of being tweeted. The traffic comes from several locations, not all twitter ASNs. One interesting s
by batch12 4y ago
I have observed that twitter's bot hits links within seconds of being tweeted. The traffic comes from several locations, not all twitter ASNs. One interesting source is Apple. Their bot/scanner hits soon after.
- Aissen 4y agoAnyone paying for the firehose access can do this.
- batch12 4y agoThat's true of course. What's interesting to me is that they've decided to pay for this access and visit the links so quickly. It must be pretty expensive or hard to get if only around two-dozen companies pay for access to the data[0]. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/08/elon-musk-twitter-bot-data/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/08/elon-mu...
- Aissen 4y agoIt might be that Apple is paying for the firehose as a data-source to bootstrap its search engine. Don't they have one accessible via Siri already ? (I don't follow Apple tech very closely).