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It seems like they don’t care about the API. That makes it a matter of values rather than competence.
by nonethewiser 4y ago
It 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...
- Quarrelsome 4y agoI think you need to rate limit and auth most free consumer-facing end points, given the maliciousness of public traffic. Limiting it is just protecting yourself from its worst excesses, that doesn't necessarily mean you don't want to be a platform.
- raverbashing 4y agoCommercial awareness is also competence
- skipants 4y agoSo what you're saying is we have an inverse Hanlon's Razor, here?