Chris TrottierTwitter is killing free API access.
Will most devs pay for access? No thanks.
If what happened to 3rd party clients proves true, I have a feeling many devs will move their efforts to the Fediverse.
Tomi the Slav and 1024 others@atomicpoet Oh. This is the last no-no for me.
I still have a business account there and some simple bots that I wrote just out of curiosity and learning.
I'm switching them off and will rewrite them for Mastodon.
I still have a business account there and some simple bots that I wrote just out of curiosity and learning.
I'm switching them off and will rewrite them for Mastodon.
One year ago I started a little experiment with my #Twitter account (for my company). TLDR: it ended badly.
I wrote 3 python scripts for Twitter:
1. auto-post tweets 3 times a day from excel (I wrote approx 500 tweets in advance - business related),
2. follow interesting people (predefined keywords) and
3. unfollow inactive accounts
Scripts ran fine, but the result was:
I was followed mostly by shady bots, Asian girls with links to p0rn sites (also bots).
Summary: make a bot, get a bot.