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UnkleRinkus t1_jc2hwiy wrote

Reply to comment by mecha_flake in Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data by Hrmbee

They will rate limit the number of queries coming from a given IP address. Then someone will develop an agent that will support crowd sourcing this across thousands of users, and then either Twitter's servers will hopefully crumble under the load or their AWS bills will skyrocket, either of which will accelerate the fall.

Elon is about to discover the Streisand effect.

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Ok_Sir5926 t1_jc2hqey wrote

Reply to comment by skilliard7 in Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data by Hrmbee

Why the incessant need to replace it? Just stop using it, and then touch grass. There's no biological requirement to tell the world about your thoughts, 140 chars at a time.

There's no reason you need something "better." If it's bad...stop. Don't look for a replacement for the bad....cuz it's just more bad.

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Westfakia t1_jc2fet3 wrote

Reply to comment by 0pimo in Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data by Hrmbee

Last time I checked this was earth.

I’ve been here long enough to know that leaving capitalism unchecked is not the best course for the majority of society, and that we have a system of laws in place to prevent abuses as well as a tax system that helps redress systemic inequity.

Reall though, are you going to deny that letting oligarchs like musk run rampant is how twitter got fucked up in the first place?

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landwomble t1_jc2ez3t wrote

Reply to comment by MammothJust4541 in The UK is banning TikTok on government devices — joining the US, Canada, and the EU — despite a charm offensive dubbed 'Project Clover,' report says by chrisdh79

BYOD is fine (although I'm fairly sure the civil services DOES supply work phones to most line of business staff who require one). However you should be enforcing Android Work Profile or the iOS equivalent when accessing corporate resources as part of a Conditional Access Policy. E.g. as soon as you sign into work email etc it enforces MDM before you get access. This will do stuff like insist on a secure PIN/password screen lock, control over application install under an allow/deny list, enforce device encryption as well as provision it with any certs needed to access company resources. Every company I can think of has been doing this for years and it's trivial and essential under a Zero Trust model for security.

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DeathGPT t1_jc2doq9 wrote

Reply to comment by blindedtrickster in Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data by Hrmbee

I completely understand where you're coming from, and I agree that it's important to recognize that responsibility doesn't lie with only one individual. When we say "don't hate the player, hate the game", what we mean is that we shouldn't blame individuals for the flaws in a system, but rather look at the systemic issues that are causing those flaws.

I think you all seem to forget, Elon pretty much Saved Ukraine on the battlefield with the release of Starlink. But ohh just forget about his good contributions like good little basement commies who repeat the same mainstream ideas on a daily. If 90% of your thoughts are someone else’s, or just ideas perpetuated from an assortment of Redditers and tweeters - become original.

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FleetAdmiralFader t1_jc2ae2r wrote

Reply to comment by landwomble in The UK is banning TikTok on government devices — joining the US, Canada, and the EU — despite a charm offensive dubbed 'Project Clover,' report says by chrisdh79

For some it's probably a whitelist/blacklist situation and the ban is for the employees with elevated priveleges, not the typical employee. As a developer, I'm allowed a wide range of permissions including some Admin rights. However, my devices are still managed by the company and they turn on restrictions at any point.

This could be a situation where they are explicitly locking down the users that previously had extra permissions....but it's the government so maybe not.

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blindedtrickster t1_jc29hqd wrote

Reply to comment by DeathGPT in Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data by Hrmbee

xD

How many times has any variant of 'Don't hate the player, hate the game" been a reasonable argument?

It's way more valid to recognize, as you may have been trying to do, that responsibility doesn't lie with only one individual. You could have easily said that Elon's actions are rediculous and simultaneously lampooned American capitalism, and government, as being a massively influential in Elon's efforts.

But you didn't. You basically said that Elon's not the problem. That's not true. He's not the only problem. Hell, he's not the biggest problem either! But he's part of a compounding problem.

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FamousSuccess t1_jc290co wrote

Reply to comment by mecha_flake in Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data by Hrmbee

I was thinking the same. API being closed will now shift a huge proportion of querying to scraping. They'll definitely see an uptick in server loads.

Funny enough it would not shock me to see Twitter scale down their server/hardware to mirror their expected data demands as a result. But I could see this back firing pretty quickly when a couple github projects find their way to mainstream and near-plugin ready twitter scrapers are slamming the site 24/7

Going to be interesting to watch play out

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FamousSuccess t1_jc27xaw wrote

Reply to comment by Westfakia in Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data by Hrmbee

Currently the situation does more for what you're describing than what was just proposed.

As-is, researchers are cut off entirely. Only those with the means to do say may access the API now.

Free tiered access of some level would level the playing field MORE than less

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landwomble t1_jc27qdz wrote

Reply to comment by cartsucks in The UK is banning TikTok on government devices — joining the US, Canada, and the EU — despite a charm offensive dubbed 'Project Clover,' report says by chrisdh79

<shrugs> Pretty much every company does exactly that. It's neither hard nor expensive (and is probably a significant saver of money from not having to clear up after security incidents). UK Gov uses M365, they have access to InTune. Turn it on.

Personally I'd ban whatsapp/signal/telegram from them as well to enforce integrity in communications via Teams (which they are also using and licenced for) to avoid the "oops I lost my phone, sorry" responses to FOIA requests.

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tyler1128 t1_jc27nqp wrote

Reply to comment by FamousSuccess in Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data by Hrmbee

I'm personally thinking about writing a service to sell the data at something like 1/10,000th the cost twitter is charging or less. It'd cache most of the tweet data in LRU form up to a specific data limit in a central database, and dynamically grab new data in the case it isn't already there. There's also be a constantly running scraper for new data to throw it in the central DB cache. Only think stopping me is understanding the legal ramifications. On-demand access to historical data is too slow for large cohorts.

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FamousSuccess t1_jc27bzt wrote

Reply to comment by tyler1128 in Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data by Hrmbee

I'm not sure if the data will be sold, rather than just tools to gather it.

Even still, from what I've seen in the past not much stands in the way of "ownership" of tweets/FB posts/Social media. It tends to fall in the public IP territory

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