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   Rod Hilton (rodhilton@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 09:42:56 JST Rod Hilton

   It boggles my mind that the url is still Twitter. Do they not know how to make it X? It's been months.

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     Andy Piper (andypiper@macaw.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 09:42:54 JST Andy Piper

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     • Gavin

     @_calmdowndear @rodhilton oh, maybe? I could be mistaken. Similarly haven't gone near it for quite a while.

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     Rod Hilton (rodhilton@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 09:42:54 JST Rod Hilton

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     • Gavin

     @andypiper @_calmdowndear yeah the api still exists, it's just insanely expensive. I don't know if anyone is using it, I think they talked about carving out an Academic policy for cheap usage but I'm not sure if it happened and if it did I imagine that was closed down after a paper or two about toxicity on the platform.

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     Andy Piper (andypiper@macaw.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 09:42:55 JST Andy Piper

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     • Gavin

     @_calmdowndear @rodhilton I'm almost certain that the API is no longer available.

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     Gavin (_calmdowndear@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 09:42:55 JST Gavin

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     • Andy Piper

     @andypiper @rodhilton oh, I thought it was just paywalled behind Blue, not totally dead. I haven’t used Twitter for a while though, maybe I’m out of date

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     Gavin (_calmdowndear@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 09:42:56 JST Gavin

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     @rodhilton do the various common librarys (tweepy et al) handle redirects properly? could there be concerns that it'll cut off a lot of "automated engagement" (spam) that is expecting `twitter.com/api/`, or is that all handled off an `api.` subdomain or similar?

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 09:43:17 JST Tim Chambers

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     • Gavin

     @rodhilton @andypiper @_calmdowndear

     Academic pricing never happened.