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gigglesworthy t1_j7vakpe wrote

Does it use the Twitter API?

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DefiantWatermelon OP t1_j7venze wrote

Mix of API + scraping

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Sylocule t1_j7vpoy2 wrote

Thought they were moving the API access to a pay model?

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DefiantWatermelon OP t1_j7vqp4j wrote

Yeah that's supposed to go into effect today. As of now the APIs I used still seem to be working

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Cour4ge t1_j7xgv6k wrote

It's because they delayed the change to the 13th February.

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dragonmp93 t1_j7w03rr wrote

It seems that they halted doing that because they were was a massive bug blocking people from even posting a tweet at all.

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Sylocule t1_j7w1ci3 wrote

Twitter seems to be a bug fest at the moment

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1roOt t1_j7wj7zo wrote

Which is expected from such a project if you ask me. The more I dive into programming, the more I wonder how anything can survive for that long :p

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EricForce t1_j7wv9i8 wrote

The truth is nothing survives for long at all. Even Facebook managed to crash their entire subnetwork. It was so bad I heard that the sys admins couldn't get through the doors to the server room because it killed every key card and door lock they had. Many things in tech are like that; one mistake away from utter chaos.

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jochem4208 t1_j7yl891 wrote

Isn't it true for most parts of life. Politics, schools, construction sites, we live so close on so many edges

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pm_me_your_rigs t1_j7x1src wrote

The truth is as someone who has worked on large scale networks for many years. Shit is perpetually broke. But generally there is enough redundancy to mask those issues.

And for code pushes there are generally multiple levels validation and approval before things roll out.

Even then, there will be bugs. No process is perfect.

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