Twitter C/D

it funny twitter thinks anyone is going to pay for any of this shit no one needs to be on there its for degenerates only its not a place of honor

they should just go straight to "for $10K a month you will get 10K guaranteed non bot views"

which will be performed by the hardcore twitter employees of course

Lag00n https://gist.github.com/shobotch/5160017

hmm

I'm not convinced that yanking the auth is sufficient to keep them from noticing it's not the twitter client, but running all the app requests through a proxy and investigating if they're doing any header/metadata tricks would make it harder to track imo

Also those are from 7 years ago

yeah they've been cycled since then (and some of those clients no longer exist), but the keys are out there. actual bots (as in spam bots) use the official creds. https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/65647.html. if you want a bot you can have a bot.

that said, why bother at this point.

extremely true

excellent point. imagine Chinese spy balloon-gate with an actual fully functioning twitter

instead im getting bits and pieces and have to mostly rely on going to actual news websites (gasp)

what a disappointment https://t.co/PB2vKVDxIJ

— rat king 🐀 (@MikeIsaac) February 4, 2023

were back baby

Responding to feedback, Twitter will enable a light, write-only API for bots providing good content that is free

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 5, 2023

Elon and the Good Bots

interesting to me because I personally love good content that is free

did twitter embeds die? lol

only the not-good ones

To celebrate Musk stopping free API usage, we've created a block list of all paid Blue subs. All 268K of them, currently 225K on the list. We intend to go out blocking everyone who pays to get their content promoted in searches and replies! #BlockTheBlue https://t.co/AnhuvwAQR2

— BlockTheBlue (@BlockTheBlue) February 4, 2023

1. good idea
2. 270k is $25m/year

snapchat just passed 2M paid subscribers out of 375M daus… not really much of a revenue stream tbqh

what does paying for snapchat get you

nft filters

i just made that up but it probably exists

A Snapchat Plus subscription gives users early and exclusive access to features for $3.99 a month, including changing the app icon and seeing who rewatched your story. In July, the company rolled out Snapchat for desktop to subscribers — the first major feature for paid users.

Snapchat is also introducing a new set of features today for its more than 1 million Plus subscribers. Among the updates is priority story replies, which makes Plus subscribers’ responses more visible when replying to Snap Stars (public figures and other creators with a verified Snapchat presence).

Other features are cosmetic, like special backgrounds for users’ Bitmoji characters and new app icon designs. Subscribers will also be able to add an emoji that displays to friends after they’ve viewed a Snap.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/15/23306268/snapchat-plus-subscription-one-million-users-new-features

no lootcrates no cred

just unbelievably bullshit “features” that only a tiny handful of power users will give a shit about

and then those power users will turn like, 19 and move on to something else

i will never give up my bitmoji character

Related, from Ed Zitron
https://ez.substack.com/p/techs-elite-hates-labor

Where’s your fucking expose on this, Taibbi? (Are they still doing those? I got bored after the first thread.)

At House hearing now, Twitter attorney testified that they were told the Trump WH demanded Twitter take down this tweet from @chrissyteigen in 2019. Twitter didn't.

(She responded to a Trump tweet calling her "filthy- mouthed".) https://t.co/c0ivCEo0Oy

— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) February 8, 2023

i think they are still doing them lol

The only thing they really uncovered was that the FBI was spending a lot of its time reporting satirical tweets to Twitter. But that stuff was buried under so much other junk it never made any impact.

"The hearing is temporarily in recess after the lights went out and WiFi stopped working, delaying a line of questioning about Twitter’s handling of content related to Iran."

LOL pic.twitter.com/nFZKlDvpzI

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 8, 2023

"To your point that we are not allowed to round up and shoot people who vote for Democrats because of the 'Constitution' OK, maybe so ..."

“you are over the daily limit for sending tweets”

dude ive sent six and that was nine hours ago, let me tweet abt POLTERGEIST (1982)

Oh man I just came here to say I just got that message too

(I was retweeting a thing about John Williams)

Getting the same message: exciting new software failure, or exciting new Elon-implemented feature whereby only Blue subscribers can tweet more than 5 times a day?

Chilling anti Spielberg agenda looks like

just did a test and got it too gotta be a bug

Concerning

You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets.

i have not tweeted since late january

your tweets suck its time to be quiet now

This new "if you pay, you can post 4000-character tweets" thing is just mind-bogglingly stupid. Like, how much would you be willing to pay to demonstrate your fundamental misunderstanding of the platform you're on?

Can't even like things now. Fucken useless website.

things don't need to be liked

I Like Everything

they post if you schedule them

sheesh what do you know "The Twitter Files" apparently omitted the fact that Trump was constantly asking them to take things down and that Twitter themselves kept changing their own policies so Trump wouldn't be found in violation. where's Taibbi on this????

they have given the twitter files over to Michael Shellenberger who continues to try to be someone of importance

Saw a rumor that Twitter had cut off its own API access, which would be fantastic.

The fact that scheduled tweets *do* work supports the rumor.

i told them not to disconnect that mac mini labeled "API" in the closet

how much would you be willing to pay to demonstrate your fundamental misunderstanding of the platform you're on?

So far Musk has paid most of his money and all of his dignity, so...

and we're back

please tape everything down

SCOOP: Elon has emailed staff following the Twitter outage.

“Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up.”

— Kylie Robison (@kyliebytes) February 8, 2023