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Once upon a time I used Twitter's API to scan for tweets that were talking about a particular Wikipedia page. Doing semantic analysis, I did insert the tweets in the right place of the page. I did it as a student, using the free API. Twitter was the open, technically respected network with a great engineering blog. Now it's a political project to elect the extreme-right in Europe.
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"The world's town square", where everyone could gather and see what was going on. And, for more than a decade, it appeared to work pretty well. Governments, media outlets, public-facing services of all kinds came to rely on it as their main way to talk to the public. But now it's impossible to use without a login, most of that value has been lost. The best thing to do is to learn from what happened, and not allow a proprietary platform to become so central again.
> Once upon a time I used Twitter's API Once upon a time Twitter used to have RSS/Atom feeds for each account. * https://www.seroundtable.com/twitter-rss-depreciated-16973.h...
> Now it's a political project to elect the extreme-right in Europe. You people are completely out of touch with reality. You cannot accept that the reason of why we’re voting for the “far” right is because we experienced a whole decade of uncontrolled immigration policies that permanently reshaped the way of living of previously homogeneous countries.
The free API was closed off well before Twitter ownership changed hands. Even the paid API became untenable for many early users well beforehand. The writing was on the wall for Twitter well before musk got involved, sadly.
Just Europe?