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the contract says they can't make any demands that have materially adverse effect on the company if he was hitting up against rate limits, it's easy for Twitte
by fooey 4y ago
the contract says they can't make any demands that have materially adverse effect on the company
if he was hitting up against rate limits, it's easy for Twitter to call his requests adverse
- mft_ 4y agoHow would it be adverse? Are you suggesting his data scientists are querying the API so much that they are DDoSing Twitter?
- erichocean 4y agoThey gave higher rate limits to existing enterprise customers. Pretty hard to argue that is was "adverse" in that case.
- ImPostingOnHN 4y agohe had access to the Firehose, which streams all the data, so his complaints about the other API ring false (which they removed the limits on anyways, according to elon -- but again, the API was a subset of the Firehose access he already had) it seems more likely that he was upset that he had access to all of Twitter's data via the Firehose, but being impulsive and incompetent in the field of bot detection (having had zero experience), he has absolutely no way to produce a trustworthy report on bots which contradicts Twitter's report so, he's just complaining about limits he used to have on an API he doesn't need to avoid producing a report he can't produce that requires expertise he doesn't have
- richwater 4y agoAPIs aren't the only way to deliver data