Mike Masnick ✅So with Elon now charging for API access to Twitter, and lots of tools likely to shut down... we should at least expect another influx of developers coming to Mastodon, and hopefully users as well...
Oof. Thank goodness for edit here.... 😂
Andres Jalinton@mmasnick
Edits are a must on any social network for sure! 😅
Edits are a must on any social network for sure! 😅
Tim Ellis 🦝@mmasnick It's such a nice feature! I've already found myself a few times about to delete a post to re-post with some minor edit, then I realize oh wait, I can just actually edit it here!
Joseph Kohlmann@mmasnick Hah 😂 Maybe we’ve re-derived Elon Logic in that original version of your post 🥴
6H057rUNN3r@mmasnick is it really an edit button without the privilege of paying Elmo?
Louis Ingenthron@mmasnick Looks like they haven't worked out all the bugs in the edit feature...
ML2@LouisIngenthron IIRC Freemo is working on incorporating that at Qoto in the next update.
Torbjörn Björkman@mmasnick I want to nominate Mastodon's multitier edit - Edit, Delete, Delete and redraft (=immediate delete+edit) - for all and any of the prestigious prizes for insight into the workings of the human mind.
Bruce Johnson ✅@mmasnick By 'coming to Twitter', do you mean 'coming to Mastodon'?
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Eric Neustadter (e)@mmasnick I've seen a spike of new followers from mastodon.social today, so my guess is the users are already on their way.
Proxima Centauri@mmasnick The wave might be ongoing
https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount/109796210030305016
But it will only get bigger once it really happens because most bot makers don't look at Twitter Dev or are in Twitter. They just made their bot and are doing something else, and they find it out the hard way.
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Luis_Fierro 
@mmasnick You mean coming FROM Twitter TO Mastodon, I imagine.
@Luis_Fierro yeah i already edited the post... you may be seeing an old version
Kevin Hardiman@mmasnick flocking to the bird site, one might say. I’m here all week.
eko_dot_swf@mmasnick and the moment Elon sees the resulting mastodon growth is the moment he reverses this asinine API policy
Dan@mmasnick I’m just going to assume he already worked out with all of the advertisers and giant companies who use the API for customer support and marketing. Right? Right…?
Kirk Kittell@mmasnick Developers, yes. I don't know about users. I'm not a Real Developer, but I have one bot there (posts a word of the day in Chinese, has maybe 3000 followers). I assume that the autoposter will break and most followers won't even notice--just another drop in the stream that quietly disappeared.
Only way I could see it transferring a substantial number of users is if the bot owners set up something here now, then start manually or autoposting links to their Mastodon profile/post URLs there for this last week. I mean, if we're going to get kicked out unceremoniously, hey, why not take a little something with us.
@kittell sounds like a plan.
But the thing is, if more developers keep coming here, users will come as well.
@mmasnick I think it will certainly trend in the right direction, and that will be a feedback loop that keeps it going. I only disagree with the folks (not you, but there was a post in my stream near yours) who think it will be a tsunami.
@kittell oh yeah. i don't think it will be a tsunami either. I do think steady growth is the best and most likely path
@mmasnick Obviously this isn't much, and I don't have a big following, but I'd like to see everyone about to lose a bot do something like this: https://twitter.com/ZhWOTD/status/1621545670187302914
Chinese Word of the Day on Twitter
“Thank you all for following @zhwotd for the past six years. After @TwitterDev revokes free API access next week, I assume the bot making the posts here will stop working. If you find this small service helpful, I am now posting on Mastodon: https://t.co/UUNq370JDk”
Lunatech@mmasnick
> "...we should at least expect another influx of developers coming to Twitter, and hopefully users as well..."
Seriously???
@Lunatech to Mastodon. I wrote Twitter by accident but edited it to correct it within minutes.
@mmasnick Okay, cool. I figured it was probably just a mistake, we've all made them! But your edit never reached the instance I use for whatever reason. I suspect the "fediverse" may be a little broken in that regard.
Andrew Leahey@mmasnick From your lips to the mammoth's trunk.
I don't think Musk fully understands the effects of driving all the nerds away. I think he envisions Twitter as a mainstream platform and doesn't grok that every user interacts with some other user's weird little side project over there.
Kevin Sours@andrew @mmasnick
There is no way he can. He hasn't had enough time nor does he have an adequate management structure in place to get the information he needs to make informed decisions. That's even if he cared enough to get it.
He's trashing in a trap of his own making. He needs to increase revenue to offset the debt he loaded onto the company but attempting to charge people for things is driving people away an eating into traditional revenues.
Tiffany Li@mmasnick Are there enough folks here to attract the developers of the fun bots and tools? I feel like all my tech/generally nerdy friends are here, but not that many others are yet.
@tiffanycli we'll see. we already saw that elon's attack on third party clients resulted in those developers coming here. and users will follow. so why not other developers as well? Especially as there's a promise that the API won't be shut down here.
Derek Brauders@tiffanycli @mmasnick I think it's growing, and connections being made. With the likes of @buffer , @medium , and link buttons expanding, it will bring more varied groups. (Opinion only, as I'm an observer, not an expert in this field). Of course, EM will end up helping by accident, which is ironic and hilarious...