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.
Matthew@atomicpoet Anybody know if this will affect Nitter, or does Nitter not use the API?
GunChleoc@picard From using Nitter, I'm already under the subjective impression that some throttling has been going on. Statuses look fine, but profiles only seem to give the latest tweet.
@crossposter has already given up due to the API throttling.
I would not be surprised if in the long run they will kill Nitter too, because it gives them no direct ad revenue.
@gunchleoc @atomicpoet Thanks. I mostly use Nitter for the RSS of accounts I want to read, so far that has been OK but like you say I do expect them to take action against it at some point as it's purely a cost on them.
I just checked an account on uk.unofficialbird.com and it did show more than the most recent post, so maybe the larger instances are getting throttled more or something.
@picard I'd expect what they can fetch will depend on the traffic they're getting and that everybody has the same rate limit, so a less busy instance would be able to fetch more @atomicpoet
@gunchleoc @atomicpoet That'd be my guess yeah. I suppose Nitter was good while it lasted, but it was probably never likely to be permanent...
ophiocephalic 🐍@picard @gunchleoc @atomicpoet According to the Nitter developer it won't be affected as it doesn't use the APIs "in the official way".
