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> Smart journalists are going to stop relying on Twitter's API now. This seems unlikely. Journalists are pragmatists and won't abandon Twitter unless there is
by q1w2 4y ago
> Smart journalists are going to stop relying on Twitter's API now.
This seems unlikely. Journalists are pragmatists and won't abandon Twitter unless there is an alternative.
- grumple 4y agoThe alternative is screenshots or direct quoting, both of which are actually easier than using the api.
- nicce 4y agoBut they have zero proof about being real. Using the API was proof. I can make any tweet from any user, take screenshot and you can’t prove it was not real.
- pygy_ 4y agoNews site could fetch the tweet markup using the API at publication time, save it locally, and publish a static version along with the article.
- plgonzalezrx8 4y agoThats a lot of effort going into something that 99% of the people couldn't care less.
- afterburner 4y agoExactly, so using a screenshot is in fact a good solution
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoApart from the inefficiency and inaccessibility.
- dpkirchner 4y agoIt'd be pretty easy to automatically implement in their publishing system, I think.
- nicce 4y agoIt does not provide any additional value, since that can be faked as easily as the screenshot. Any validation requires something from Twitter end-point, that they check and verify publicly that it actually existed at that time… but that does not work since we are going against removals made by Twitter in the first hand.
- idiotsecant 4y agoDid the general public start caring about news being real at some point?
- tptacek 4y agoOnly on Internet message boards is this a live issue.
- FartyMcFarter 4y agoThat's only an issue if you distrust a particular news source more than you distrust Twitter itself. Now that Twitter is owned by a known bully (I don't use that word lightly), only the crappiest newspapers would fit that standard.
- cmeacham98 4y agoYou're reading news sources where you think it's a serious threat that the journalists might fake a tweet? Why would you care about what any site with that low of a reputation has to say?
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoIt may not be an issue with established, reputable news sources you're already familiar with, but it certainly could be with every other website out there.
- grumple 4y agoUsing the API proves nothing. You can easily fake an embedded tweet - would take the average frontend dev very little time to do from scratch.
- BirdPlusPlus 4y ago> Smart journalists This seems unlikely.