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   Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 03:43:18 JST Eaton

   The sudden chaos as Twitter — a service built on the idea of shouting your shower thoughts to the world — locks everything behind a registration wall, jacks up prices, AND gets demonstrably less stable for the PAYING customers is a hilarious demonstration off the fact that Musk isn’t actually good at business, just at being a rich guy.

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     Jennifer Johnson (simplyjennifer@zirk.us)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 16:30:56 JST Jennifer Johnson

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     @eaton I don't think he was ever supposed to be "good" at twitter.

     Twitter was the "town square" for news and politics and marginalized groups and resistance groups worldwide. Communities like Black Twitter and Disability Twitter RELIED on that platform.

     As American democracy crumbles, bringing down Twitter was an intentional act. I don't think that was all his money.

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 16:31:13 JST Eaton

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     It’s an entirely predictable cycle; scraping Twitter was way more of a hassle than using its API… when the API was low-cost.

     And every action Musk takes to lock out “freeloaders” reduces the incremental value of access to the service at all — making the ROI of those insane API costs for devs and businesses built on Twitter even worse.

     Which incentivizes finding ways around the API, which restarts the loop.

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 16:31:14 JST Eaton

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     Even funnier that the current weirdness is an obvious result of the batshit API pricing.

     Anyone interested in low end tinkering wa suddenly incentivized to sidestep the API and just scrape the oEmbed or web endpoints, and they did. So he locked out unregistered visitors and killed embedding, which broke every citation of a tweet on the Internet.

     Then people start using logged in sessions to get that data. So he limits *actual logged in users* to only viewing 600 tweets per day.

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