@jbminn I bet the world revealed itself to him in many interesting ways over the years!
@jbminn Good advice. Trying the one with the feather.
New blog post: “This Mastodon Will Explode, Session 1” https://bavatuesdays.com/this-mastodon-will-explode-session-1/
The tech press doesn't understand that Twitter just killed the only thing that ever made them innovative:
3rd party access to their API
This should be a bigger story because, in reality, almost all of Twitter innovations came from 3rd parties -- including the word "tweet" itself.
🚨 BREAKING: This week, @CenDemTech & 6 technologists with expertise in online recommendation systems filed an amicus brief in Gonzalez v Google. The brief urges the U.S. #SupremeCourt to hold that #Section230’s liability shield applies to claims against interactive computer service providers based on their recommendation of third-party content, because those claims treat providers as publishers. Read more of our analysis & the full brief 👇 https://cdt.org/insights/cdt-and-technologists-file-scotus-brief-urging-court-to-hold-that-section-230-applies-to-recommendations-of-content/
Twitter quietly updates its developer agreement with a clause banning third-party clients, after claiming the company was enforcing "long-standing API rules" (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/twitter-new-developer-terms-ban-third-party-clients-211247096.html
http://www.techmeme.com/230119/p31#a230119p31
"Third-party clients don't make us any money so of course we're not allowing them" is a bold stance from the one platform that doesn't share revenue with its creators. #Twitter
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Advance Open and Equitable Research https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2023/01/11/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-actions-to-advance-open-and-equitable-research/
@jbminn It is. You are right.
Enjoying the American Experience documentary on Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/zora-neale-hurston-claiming-space/
I still have the original Twitter API Field Guide style documentation from back in the day. I collect old APIs. I am that guy you drive by their house on highway in the desert and they have a bunch of old APIs in their yard. https://twitter-field-guide.apievangelist.com/
The Twitter OpenAPI is gone - https://api.twitter.com/labs/2/openapi.json Luckily I have a cached copy, and trying to figure out how to add to my API museum. https://gist.github.com/kinlane/173d89eb8a9cd7dfc4e77fb3bb63dda2
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