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Twitter Shuts Down JSON API and Names New CEO
An anonymous reader writes: This month Twitter is closing down the JSON endpoint API which thousands of third-party software and plugin developers have depended upon for years. The alternative Rest API offers data which is aggregated or limited in other ways, whilst the full-featured share data offered by Gnip (purchased last year by Twitter) can cost developers thousands per month to access — in one case up to £20,000 a month. The general objective seems to be to either drive users back to the core Twitter interface where they can be monetized via the social network's advertising, or to regain lost advertising by converting open source data — currently utilized a lot in scientific research — into premium information, offering the possibility for well-funded organizations to gain reputations as Twitter barometers without ever needing to expose the expensive, accurate share figures. The company also announced today that co-founder Jack Dorsey would be the new CEO.
Oh noes! How will I live without access to posts by people letting the world know that they just had a slice of pizza and then took a dump in 140 characters or less.
... nor followed anyone except a couple of friends (not counting all the ones that I constantly get email about for some reason.)
I see less reason than ever to change that.
Where's Gnop?
Yeah... I'm old.
"Never give up, for that is just the time and place when the tide will change." -Harriet Beecher Stowe ^_^
Twits.
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
your irrelevance than it does about twitter.
People with a life, not dottering neckbeards, are twitter's target demographic.
Why not just return an ad-as-a-post in the API?
That is pretty much what happens on the Twitter feed anyway, you'll see an ad somewhere near the top that almost looks like a post.
Just extend that to the API as well.
Somehow Twitter has become a legitimate conduit for celebrities, politicians, terrorists and even nation states. The US Department of State today tweets "Enjoyed speaking with so many young people passionate about environment" (Kerry) even as he is jetting off for the TPP signing that is 100% guaranteed to remove whatever trivial impediments remain to frictionless off-shoring the last of our manufacturing base to whatever seething pollution hell-hole is cheapest this week.
We're governing ourselves with massively multiplayer bullshit propagation system run by bay area grifters.
The word you were looking for may have been MOOOOOOOO
Maybe they should have tried it the other way round.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
and I don't intend to find out...
captcha: clutter
Almost never used it, and they're about to learn a hard, hard lesson.
Religion is what happens when nature strikes and groupthink goes wrong.
"This month Twitter is closing down the JSON endpoint API which thousands of third-party software and plugin developers have depended upon for years. " This is not only questionable editorializing but a horrifically constructed sentence to begin with.
At this rate, the warnings of Richard Stallman in the past casually dismissed as the ranting of an extremist will soon be commonly held as wise and insightful (though still widely ignored by sheep-like consumers).
To see what my citizens are up to in Cities Skylines. #bringbackslashdotbeta
For $20 I'll go stick something to Gnip's windows for you!
For a moment there I only saw "Twitter Shuts Down"
Got my damn hopes up there for a second. :P
Looks like we might have a Ferguson chimpout right in Cupertino. Apple had better comply with All Sharptons demands for more social justice and diversity in the ranks. Let's also squander billions of dollars on STEM and "everyone should code" crapola in the inner city where kids are more interested in dealing drugs and spray painting walls. Yes we need more do gooder liberal SJW bull shit.
Born of lazy programmers, fat pipes, and schema-less thinking. Let it die.
(moralistic tirade forthcoming)
**>>BELCH
Contrary to the culture provided to you by TV, worshiping money is worse than any main stream Religion. You claim you'd be willing to pay, but you don't pay now and there are plenty of services available. So you worship money and are a liar if we take you at your written word.
Here's the only sentence you need from any of the linked articles:
This affects nobody's ability to retweet their cat pictures. This only affects advertisers' ability to suck data. Someone get out the sad violin.
"Hey devs...fuck you ha ha ha ha ha!"
-Signed, Twitter
Personally this is one of those "...and nothing of value was lost" moments.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Then a red balloon floats away
Twitter: Foot. Gun. Aim gun at foot. FIRE!
AKA "ready, fire, aim"
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
There goes the cool Twitter widgets that are much better than Twitters... Pretty much will end usability like when Facebook cut off APIs and killed all third-party widgets...
So a social media site that everyone thinks they are 'entitled' to is monetizing the service to pay the bills. If everyone jumps ship, then it fails, so what. I'm waiting for all social media like this to fade into obscurity like the pet rock.
People show up to work at Twitter every day without killing themselves?
Creating the shitty website requires an entire company staffed with fuckheads?
People navigate to twitter.com, sign up, and spend time posting shit nobody reads?
All of these impossible things happen every day?
We've blogged about the infrastructure change that led to this decision https://blog.twitter.com/2015/hard-decisions-for-a-sustainable-platform - I'd also point out that as undocumented and unsupported endpoint, probably never a good idea to rely on this data. No plans to change other JSON endpoints on the API.
Disclaimer: I work as a Developer Advocate at Twitter