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Ask HN: About the Shitshow (a.k.a. Twitter)

1 points by ppetty ↗ HN
Given the state of the Twitter API & new costs it seems like many developers, small companies & organizations are throwing in the towel. It seems plausible to me, that this doesn't necessarily spell the end to the good bots or apps or feature enhancements to twitter. What if twitter itself recreates some of these things or sherlocks some aspects of these things as features? It might seem cynical or spiteful, but what should throwing in the towel look like? If you had an open source repo should you delete it? Should you try to suppress access to info from your site that describes features & benefits? Or is it too late? Or maybe it just doesn't matter at this point.

I have no skin in the game (no apps, no bots, no twitter handle any more), but this all just occurred to me while reading articles about some of the apps & tools that will most likely being going away.

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sylware
Is Nitter using the API protocol or the obfuscated javascript network protocol?
sylware
Nitter is using the obfuscated javascript network protocol according to its "about" message. Then, API shutdown is not going to change anything there.
groffee
Musk is just shaking off the freeloaders. It will help with bots too.

There's so much vitriol surrounding this, but if you look at Twitter it's doing just fine.

Why shouldn't people pay for API access? You can't sustain freeloaders forever, especially when most all of them are talking constant shit about you.

fzeroracer
Doing just fine according to who? It's becoming more unstable over time, it's shedding advertisers, the debt is growing, it's failing to pay rent on its offices. According to what metric is Twitter doing fine?