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Dan Gillmor Aug 25, 2023

So now the deadbird site, formerly known as Twitter, is inviting developers to come back and "build what's next" with the much abused API.

Twitter (and Reddit)'s greed-infused API restrictions wrecked a project we (ASU News Co/Lab) were doing to help journalists send corrections down the same social media pathways as the original journalism.

The idea that we'd ever work with them again is a sick joke.

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A. Rivera

@dangillmor

Locally, when they cut off the API, one of our advanced classes here in the college doing a research project suddenly got disrupted and had to find other options. Not a good time for those students.

Eff that company and its owner.