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"Data pillaging", WTF does that mean? Remember when Twitter used to give archives of tweets to the Library of Congress? And had a firehose for folks to consume

"Data pillaging", WTF does that mean? Remember when Twitter used to give archives of tweets to the Library of Congress? And had a firehose for folks to consume as many tweets as they could?

russdill 3y ago
I love how the town square model gets completely thrown out whenever it's inconvenient.
- NelsonMinar 3y ago
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asah 3y ago
It means Elon is a genius about cars and rockets, but apparently hasn't heard of "Cache-Control: public"
labster 3y ago
It means Musk wants OpenAI to pay him.
- eropple 3y ago
  Not sure anybody wants to be training AI models on the outputs of his Twitter Blue posse.
charcircuit 3y ago
If someone donated an art piece to a museum does that mean that anyone should be allowed to steal from them?
deleted 3y ago
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londons_explore 3y ago
I think it means "someone is crawling our data, perhaps because we made our API cost money, and we don't like it".
- hedora 3y ago
  Ironically, my initial reaction was “Oh crap. Public saftey orgs use this to broadcast alerts.” My second reaction was “I wonder how hard it would be to take a list of twitter handles and scrape their feeds into an S3 bucket that’s fronted with a CDN.”
- PostOnce 3y ago
  It went from $0/mo (as it had been for a long time) to $5000/mo overnight with no middle ground (for access to streaming data, no matter how small the volume).
ncr100 3y ago
Yep. BS artist says more BS. It's a shame that he's not able to escape his pathological belief that his product approach is the right approach, regardless of the grotesque impact he's making on what was a good thing for all of us.
- 12907835202 3y ago
  It's funny seeing comments like "was a good thing for all of us" after years of hearing "Twitter is damaging society". I can't tell if it's different people talking now or if people really are that fickle. Probably a bit of both.
  - ncr100 3y ago
    Both. I hold both views. The subtlety is in whether the User is beholden to Twitter Inc in a Just Along For The Ride sense, or is Creating a Burden for Innocent Others. Former is most of us, latter is institutions incapable of acting insightfully considering the possible future (this one we now live in).
wraptile 3y ago
It's corporate speak of "we want to have our data public for all of the benefits and carry no costs"
nonethewiser 3y ago
It means web scraping.

"Data pillaging", WTF does that mean? Remember when Twitter used to give archives of tweets to the Library of Congress? And had a firehose for folks to consume as many tweets as they could?

russdill 3y ago

I love how the town square model gets completely thrown out whenever it's inconvenient.

NelsonMinar 3y ago
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asah 3y ago

It means Elon is a genius about cars and rockets, but apparently hasn't heard of "Cache-Control: public"

labster 3y ago

It means Musk wants OpenAI to pay him.

eropple 3y ago
Not sure anybody wants to be training AI models on the outputs of his Twitter Blue posse.

charcircuit 3y ago

If someone donated an art piece to a museum does that mean that anyone should be allowed to steal from them?

deleted 3y ago

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londons_explore 3y ago

I think it means "someone is crawling our data, perhaps because we made our API cost money, and we don't like it".

hedora 3y ago
Ironically, my initial reaction was “Oh crap. Public saftey orgs use this to broadcast alerts.” My second reaction was “I wonder how hard it would be to take a list of twitter handles and scrape their feeds into an S3 bucket that’s fronted with a CDN.”
PostOnce 3y ago
It went from $0/mo (as it had been for a long time) to $5000/mo overnight with no middle ground (for access to streaming data, no matter how small the volume).

ncr100 3y ago

Yep. BS artist says more BS. It's a shame that he's not able to escape his pathological belief that his product approach is the right approach, regardless of the grotesque impact he's making on what was a good thing for all of us.

12907835202 3y ago
It's funny seeing comments like "was a good thing for all of us" after years of hearing "Twitter is damaging society". I can't tell if it's different people talking now or if people really are that fickle. Probably a bit of both.
- ncr100 3y ago
  Both. I hold both views. The subtlety is in whether the User is beholden to Twitter Inc in a Just Along For The Ride sense, or is Creating a Burden for Innocent Others. Former is most of us, latter is institutions incapable of acting insightfully considering the possible future (this one we now live in).

wraptile 3y ago

It's corporate speak of "we want to have our data public for all of the benefits and carry no costs"

nonethewiser 3y ago

It means web scraping.