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Does twitter api matter anymore? I stopped using it a while back. I think stuff like this is helpful to businesses who buy their data.
by ninebrows 11y ago
Does twitter api matter anymore? I stopped using it a while back. I think stuff like this is helpful to businesses who buy their data.
- whoiskevin 11y agoYes because you stopped using Twitter it is no longer significant. Seriously cracked me up.
- ninebrows 11y agoKid, please read properly. I din't say I stopped using Twitter. I said I stopped using Twitter API
- ville 11y agoI found twitter-text useful for linkifying URLs in a chat application (not related to Twitter) that I built a couple of years ago. The URL extraction functions are quite robust and handled the task well. This library has use cases beyond just parsing Twitter tweets.
- lewisl9029 11y agoYep. This is exactly the use case I had in mind when I was looking for a library like this. These features are useful in all kinds of social/chat apps that need to convert users' plaintext messages into rich multimedia content. Identifying things in plaintext is one of those things that seems very simple but ends up being a pain to get right if you want it to be robust enough to handle all the corner cases. There's a reason why this library has over 2k commits! I'd hate to have to rediscover all the lessons they must have learned the hard way...