Everything worked fine until Elon Musk took over.
Amazing how still many of those developers post things like “Hey Elon Musk, something broke, please help us” rather than “Hey all, Elon Musk once again fucked with the system we’re paying $42,000 / month to use, and there is nobody at Twitter we can even talk to”.
Was bound to happen when average people started creating cults of personality around billionaires.
If you’re willing to pay 42k then you’re probably running a business and need to maintain a relationship with Twitter. Taking shots at their owner, regardless of how you feel about them, probably won’t give you the outcome you want.
It’s easy to do the right thing when you have nothing to lose. It’s a different story when your job is on the line.
Or, they could just cancel their subscription and leave. Some kind of sunk cost fallacy preventing this, I guess.
Elon: Oops 💩
Everyone should leave Twitter by now. It’s getting worse by time.
I’m glad I left already last autumn.
I left the day after the sale was final.
Surely it will be different for those paying for the reddit API, right?
Elon took over pretending to be a programmer and started micromanaging, breaking things in the process. I don’t think this will happen to reddit…
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because nobody is going to pay it, working or not
Absolutely no doubt. Unlike Elon, spez is an absolute sweetheart!
To quote the end of the article: 🤣
Thanks for the reminder to delete my twitter account. Kinda sad to see that once again those with too much money get to ruin things for everyone else.
This just seems like a mess, instead of trying to nudge Twitter profitability he just sledgehammered the entire platform.
What idiot pays for the Twitter API?
Idiots that make a whole lot more money from the data than the 42k they’re paying.
They would have to be a business relying on Twitter for an important function. A lot of developers are in a difficult position, especially if they decided to use social media sign-ins. They need time to develop an alternative and to allow users to change their login method. But many users won’t care and will ultimately just stop using the service. The developer may decide to keep paying as opposed to losing a part of their user base.
Maybe it was a bad idea to rely on Twitter?
Users: I don’t want to sign up for a new account on yet another website! I absolutely refuse.
Developer: OK I’ve added social media sign in, but you should really sign up and link your social media account to a website account that I control as a backup.
Users: That’s OK, this is good enough.
*Twitter Changes API Policy*
Developer: You should really change over to a website account now. I can’t afford the API bill.
Users: No. I’m happy with Twitter sign in. This is your problem not mine. Please change the laws of the universe so they don’t inconvenience me. This is all your fault by the way and you’re a terrible person.
Developer: …Thanks, captain hindsight
How’s Twitter nowadays? I stopped following their changes ages ago
They’ve just introduced a new feature where you can’t view the site at all without being signed in!
And give more traffic to nitter.net
They’re going to kill that next, that’s for sure.
They’ve had this mostly locked out for a while. Certain direct links you could click but that’s about it. The links they sent in their emails didn’t work without a login.
Why would they want you to create an account SO BAD that they would hide their content if you didn’t?
I would get it if it was a newspaper, but on twitter we are the content creators.
You’re not a “content creator”. You’re a set of demographic data to be matched against LAL campaigns. Why should they open the site - and thus the ad spend - to anyone who isn’t being targeted? That’s what the platform is, it’s a way to show ads to people who give up their demo data. I’d imagine non-account users have a very low conversion rate, so don’t bother spending on them. Therefore, put up the wall so that if they want to see things on the platform, they have to agree to the ads as well
That sounds actionable.
From these collapses of Twitter API, I learned that API developer must work standing on free and open mind for other developers using the API, even if he/she joins commercial enterprise.
At this point it becomes a tax on idiots.
classicccccc
I feel bad for developers who have built a business around Twitter. But hopefully everyone comes to realize, proactively: just do not do business with Musk or his ilk. Don’t buy from his companies and don’t sell to them either: they don’t pay the bills. Don’t partner with them; they will steal your ideas and steamroll you out of existence. Just let them wither and die.
Maybe those servers he randomly unplugged turned out to be important after all
