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If you're making a twitter clone (as Substack is) then scraping the twitter follower graph seems useful. And that's public, obviously.
by surrealize 3y ago
If you're making a twitter clone (as Substack is) then scraping the twitter follower graph seems useful. And that's public, obviously.
- bigbillheck 3y ago> seems useful How so?
- Retr0id 3y agoHelp users port over their own social graphs, and assist recommendations.
- medler 3y agoSubstack’s CEO has denied any improper use of the Twitter APIs. Given Elon’s long and storied history of making things up, this allegation seems likely to be another fabulation.
- surrealize 3y agoWell, is scraping Twitter an improper use? Anyone can see tweets and who follows who - that's public. Twitter might consider a nascent competitor trying to scrape a significant fraction of the whole thing unfriendly though.
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