Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮So many years we fought with the Twitter API. I love that if you want an RSS of someone's Mastodon feed, you just add .rss at the end of their URL. Open Web, my friends. https://hachyderm.io/@shanselman.rss
Zorro Notorious MEB 😡@shanselman Twitter had RSS feeds originally; Twitter stopped serving them up at some point as a cost-cutting move.
Thommy@AlgoCompSynth @shanselman I was so mad about that? I used to auto-import tweets into my blog that way too.
@thomasjwebb @shanselman It turns out that at Twitter scale, even in the 2010 era, serving up XML was costing too much and I don't think people were actually browsing the RSS feeds.
Fauzruk@AlgoCompSynth @thomasjwebb @shanselman I don't really buy the cost cutting aspect to be honest.
They are a for profit company so they need to be able to provide some #KPI like monthly active users, etc. So they'd rather force you to access their platform to access their content and advertisement where they can control the experience.
It was probably underused as well so no real risk of a backlash for them.
They are a for profit company so they need to be able to provide some #KPI like monthly active users, etc. So they'd rather force you to access their platform to access their content and advertisement where they can control the experience.
It was probably underused as well so no real risk of a backlash for them.