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The website is awful. It's horrific. It was the worst site I visited regularly until I started using Nitter instances. I'd rather not know what is going on than go to it. I wish they'd wind the UI back 10 years, to back when it was pleasant to browse.



The point is that the website is an API, irrelevant if it is a good or bad UI.


Depending on twitter's pricing, this might not be worthwhile.

Scraping web pages is a last resort for when proper APIs are not available.


I look forward to someone teaching Elon Musk what version control is, resulting in him wholesale rolling back Twitter's entire stack to 2008. At last, Twitter is written in Ruby again!


Do you remember, I think it was 2020, when there was a big "hack" and tons of blue check accounts started posting fraud links?

Two important take-aways from that:

1) The attackers just pulled the old "Hey, I'm from IT service desk and need your password."

2) Apparently every engineer had god mode in production

I can't imagine what scary monsters are in that codebase.


I too miss the fail whale.




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