Twitter API dies in the night, cutting off third-party apps

do the unroller apps still work?

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Threadreader still seems to be working, perhaps because it’s not a full client. I have no doubt that Musk will eventually yank their API keys too.

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Daniel Craig and Janelle Monae did a fine job. I think they really made the movie.

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It’s worse than that, because, as people have pointed out, “power users” of Twitter are heavily likely to use those third-party apps. That Twitter’s own apps are increasingly unusable at this point just multiplies the problem. They’re actively alienating their core users.

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Sounds like Elon is personally leading the devs now!

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The stack has too much velocity - they
couldn’t keep up!

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Musk’s recent spate of re-platforming the alt-right and disinformation specialists makes me wonder if he has a rather different idea of who the “core users” of Twitter really are.

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That loophole was mitigated in 2018. If I understand it correctly, carrying a loss forward cannot be used to completely erase tax burdens. The maximum offset in any tax year is 80%. So a company or person who showed income in the tax year will always owe some taxes, which can be significantly reduced by prior loss but not entirely eliminated.

Good point. Just as unrealized gain isn’t taxable, unrealized losses cannot be written off. So while his stake in the purchase of Twitter woukd be considered a loss, the loss of value of Tesla stock is unrealized and therefore irrelevant for tax purposes, if I understand it.

So if that was Musk’s plan, it’s just another example of “so dumb it’s dumb!”

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I’m surprised that he hasn’t had his devs implement code that detects adblockers and throw a giant gated page telling people to disable their adblockers ‘for the full experience’…

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Down is technically a velocity…

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Interestingly, Twitterific is reporting their desktop app still works. Same APIs, but different keys. This points to Musk blacklisting the keys of the competitor mobile apps, but doing it hamfistedly, as he didn’t think to do the desktop ones too.

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Oh yeah, I think so. And a different idea of what the dynamics of Twitter are/should be: to wit, that it exists to force other people to listen to those knuckle-draggers. (It’s their whole notion of “free speech.”) I really don’t think it occurs to him that no one outside those “core users” actually want to deal with that shit, though.

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I love that phrase. I’m going to use it! Thanks
I tired to log on via the web today. Just go this! Hmmm.

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If it’s a plot, I would expect it’s a plot to lower the value of Tesla stock. It would certainly not be the first time Musk has engaged in stock value manipulation. He’s been fined repeatedly for it, and keeps looking for new ways to get around the regulations and agencies that restrict stock market shenanigans.

It’s not a plot. It’s not a plan. Musk is actually that incompetent. I hate to break it to you…

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I think you need to explain how lowering the value of his assets benefits him to posit a 12 dimensional chess gambit.

Is it a shrewd move to cause the financiers of his Twitter buyout backed by his Tesla stock to foreclose on his loans and take worthless Tesla stock off his hands? :wink:

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Well obviously Elon just needs to FIRE MORE PEOPLE!

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Of course. He’s just so shrewd, he’s getting them to take it off his hands before it’s worthless. It’s incredible foresight getting rid of it early

(/s)

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He’s broke. The joke’s on them!

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It’s 5 dimensional chess! He’s broke in Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, Boring Company AND Twitter.

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