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That's hilarious. The complete incompetence over there lol.
by titaniumtown 4y ago
That's hilarious. The complete incompetence over there lol.
- stainablesteel 4y agois it incompetent to not maintain something you don't want to maintain?
- addisonl 4y agoIt's incompetent to not want to maintain it.
- 100721 4y ago* without taking it offline
- pcthrowaway 4y agoThe incompetence is at the very top, choosing not to maintain something that they were apparently making $400m/year from paid subscribers for
- cutemonster 4y agoYes, at the same time, this: > complete incompetence over there sounded to me as if it also includes the employees
- dev_daftly 4y agoThe post seems to talk about 2 different APIs, a public one they are not continuing to work on and a commercial one that makes $400mm/year
- yamtaddle 4y agoThe API's the thing that makes Twitter tolerably-usable to heavy users—the ones who draw eyeballs to the site so the ads are worth more than $0.00—right? If so, not wanting to maintain it would probably count as incompetent, yes.
- imiric 4y agoI'm not familiar with Twitter or its API, but are ads also returned via the API? If not, then it would be more profitable for them to heavily restrict API access, and kill off 3rd party clients, so that more people would use the official clients where ads are actually shown. I.e. they don't care about heavy users if they can't make a profit from them.
- yamtaddle 4y agoHeavy users are the ones who generate the content that gives the site value in the first place, though. Advertisers aren't there to sell products to the 1% of users who make most of the posts, they're there to sell to the 99% reading those posts. Making posting on twitter a bigger pain for the people who do most of the posting—and especially for celebrity and brand accounts that get tons of "engagement" they want/need to keep track of—is probably not a great move.
- marcellus23 4y agoYes, without either taking the API down or publishing a disclaimer that it's deprecated.
- nonethewiser 4y agoNope
- JustSomeNobody 4y agoMake it awful for long enough so that when you make it better, you're a genius who saved Twitter.
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- phowat 4y agoOr so that when you finally pull the plug, people don't complain too much.
- olalonde 4y agoThe mental gymnastics of Musk haters are next level. If Twitter dies, he is dumb and incompetent. If he saves it, it was all just part of his evil plan. You got all outcomes covered, great.
- JustSomeNobody 4y agoI can't help it if he's very obvious.
- samtp 4y agoEither way he is still the guy who publicly mocked his own employee for having muscular dystrophy, offered another employee a horse if they gave him a handjob, called a cave diver who saved a bunch of children a pedo, spread conspiracy theories about an elderly man who was beaten by an intruder with a hammer.... He's not a good person.
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- olalonde 4y agoI didn't say he was a good person. But it's obvious that he's not incompetent and that he's just trying his best to salvage his investment. The idea that he is intentionally driving Twitter into the ground is beyond ridiculous.
- nonethewiser 4y agoIt seems like they don’t care about the API. That makes it a matter of values rather than competence.
- organsnyder 4y agoThey certainly don't seem to be valuing it enough to assign the quality/quantity of engineering necessary to maintain it.
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- Quarrelsome 4y agoI mean you're a platform company in 2023 and you don't want an API? Idk that sounds like competence to me in failing to appreciate its value. Sure, I appreciate it follows a strategy but I worry that the strategy will not help twitter in the long term.
- ALittleLight 4y agoIn what sense is Twitter a platform?
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- Quarrelsome 4y agoit hosts a communication service for organisations and individuals to build followings and broadcast messages. I guess its about whether you see Twitter as more than its user interface or not.
- toast0 4y agoTwitter was a platform company in 2011, but after they started limiting the api in 2012[1], I'm not sure that they wanted to be a platform anymore. [1] https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/a/2012/changes-coming-to-twitter-api https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/a/2012/changes-comi...
- kccqzy 4y agoThat sounds like a deliberate decision to maintain backwards compatibility. I shudder to think of badly coded consumers of that API sticking that text into a fixed-sized buffer (with the right scaling factor between whatever Twitter considers a character and the actual bytes) and Twitter just wants to avoid buffer overflows like that.
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