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tundey_1 t1_jc2yo43 wrote
Reply to comment by UnkleRinkus 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
Also, Elmo doesn't have that many developers to spare. He's starting a costly war that he doesn't have the resources to fight. Kinda like what a person who refuses to pay his bills and would rather be sued by the King of England!
tundey_1 t1_jc2ygj7 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
But Elmo is a stupid man who has loan interest payments coming up.
canastrophee t1_jc2xg90 wrote
Reply to comment by Mr_ToDo 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
He must be pretty hard up for cash at this point, he's getting closer and closer to the Ed Edd and Eddy Jawbreaker pricing strategy.
mymar101 t1_jc2wqub wrote
Reply to 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
Told ya. Musk wants to follow the Adobe model for things like AEM.
Culverin t1_jc2vbim wrote
Reply to 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
Every time I see one of these articles pop up, I lose a little more faith in humanity.
WHY THE FUCK IS SOCIAL MEDIA ALLOWED ON A GOVERNMENT DEVICE IN THE FIRST PLACE?
Apps should be on a whitelist basis only.
Unless you're in a public-facing role specifically meant for marketing/communication, this shouldn't even be a thing. Any competent IT team would have these policies on lock before it was even an issue.
blindedtrickster t1_jc2tsga 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
> we shouldn't blame individuals for the flaws in a system
I still disagree with this mentality. If you recognize that it's a bad system, what reasonable basis is there to conclude that taking advantage of a bad aspect of a system doesn't assign some level of 'badness' to a person?
Elon's system has helped Ukraine, yes, but he's still looking at is as 'how profitable can this be for me?'. Profit as a primary motive is incredibly dangerous and I don't think it's a good thing. Profit isn't inherently bad, but when profit takes the form of price gouging, it clearly is bad. So there is some form of line in the sand where 'don't hate the player, hate the game' stops being a defendable perspective.
Elon didn't create the technology and he almost doubled the cost to Ukraine-based Starlink subscriptions. He saw an opportunity for more profit and had no problem with it. He didn't care about what negative effects that could/would have on Ukraine.
So no, 'don't hate the player, hate the game' isn't a good methodology. It's bad because bad players working to create a rigged game. If you're unwilling to look at the people creating a rigged game and simply blame the game, you won't ever fix the game.
Finally, it's not a game. It's entire economies and real people. It's regular people's livelihoods. It's important.
skilliard7 t1_jc2spxc wrote
Reply to comment by Sailor_Jets 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
Reddit has issues with freedom of expression that Twitter does better.
Sailor_Jets t1_jc2sauo wrote
FamousSuccess t1_jc2ry05 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
Well. Keep in mind that google effectively sells advertising based on user data, and their services/users depend entirely on content and data of non google entities.
So I’d say if google can build a business on other entities public data, so can you.
Not a perfect parallel but a parallel nonetheless
GrouchyDirection7201 t1_jc2qhop wrote
Reply to comment by aaOzymandias in Spotify's redesign isn't going down well - why are so many apps going for the same look? by dfgooner
Yeah, it helps it you think about this as a case.
Its Q3 2022. Spotify has spent $XM on loyalties, exclusive artists deals (e.g. Joe Rogan) etc. The overall user growth listening to this music and podcasts we paid for is decreasing. We forsee our users ignoring Spotify and prefering to spend time on TikTok, Insta etc for entertainment, curate music taste etc. We want to double down on user engagement and get users interested in Spotify. You are the PM in charge of the new Spotify. What do you do?
If your answer is "spend more money on music and stream that" - we already spent a lot, and not all artists are willing to sign Spotify deals.
dubiousadvocate t1_jc2qc1a wrote
zardvark t1_jc2nlpf wrote
Reply to comment by CalligrapherNo730 in DuckDuckGo launches AI-powered search query answering tool by Hrmbee
The useful idiots pile onto anything that does not meet the standards of neo-Marxist "thought." I put thought in quotes because these people are not capable of any original thought of their own. They are only capable of regurgitating Leftist dogma, like religious zealots.
They are also quite violent. I recently had one "type" out loud that anyone who does not agree with them should at a minimum be put in a gulag, but what they really deserved was to be gassed and stuffed into an oven. Of course a couple of hours later they deleted this series of comments ...
We are rapidly headed to a very ugly place!
Mr_ToDo t1_jc2mzgd wrote
Reply to comment by DevAway22314 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
Don't worry, he said those publishing "good" content will be except.
It's a good thing he has that trust and safety council or it would be all up to him what good content is...
It is amusing that he's not denying access to "bad" content publishers, they just have to give him money first. That's just so wonderful of him isn't it ;)
mecha_flake t1_jc2muq0 wrote
Reply to comment by UnkleRinkus 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
Exactly. Either give people a way to do what they are trying to do or they will find a much less desirable path forward.
Mr_ToDo t1_jc2lulp wrote
Reply to comment by dubiousadvocate 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
Well it doesn't use the API, and assuming that it doesn't use a login then it's probably not bound by the EULA since it would all be public data with no agreement to see it.
Could be a bit of fun if it removes the login prompt, but it's pretty random normally and if there isn't an actual hard limit to what you can load then removing it is likely just a technicality at best(It seems more concerned about how long I stare at old tweets then how far down I scroll. I know sometimes I've gone years down if I don't stop scrolling)
Ok_Sir5926 t1_jc2jxfz wrote
Reply to comment by MustacheInterpreter 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 here to argue with YOU. You decided to reply to me. I was talking to another person.
Have a great day.
dubiousadvocate t1_jc2jom8 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 don’t think legality enters into it. At worst it’s a EULA violation. Like any public facing website. Grounds for banning the account but these would be throw away accounts to begin. Musk would whine about it but he’d probably also embrace the artificial user numbers at the same time.
One thing we’ve all learned about the man during this debacle is he’s self destructively impulsive and undisciplined.
MustacheInterpreter t1_jc2jlsb wrote
Reply to comment by Ok_Sir5926 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
Twitter for now is an unmediated source of direct communication to an audience without paywalls, tweaks by journalists or their employers. For now. That's lifeblood to these movements. I'm not here to argue with you. Ukraine has itself said the same thing.
Ok_Sir5926 t1_jc2jkei 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
You know it hasn't existed for very long? There were things before Twitter, there will be things after Twitter. People found out about shit long before tweets existed. I probably won't follow the goal posts on this one, so no need to move them again. I have a Twitter account. I've logged into it MAYBE 5 times. I still keep up on "things that I follow." I simply use other resources.
Oh, I also don't give a shit about the Musk drama. I find it funny people get so worked up about it. Doesn't mean the concept of the app is worth a shit.
Groundbreaking-Pea92 t1_jc2jjuo wrote
if edge had a mac version id check it out and bing with ai chat is similar to when google made search work. The founders are gone Schmidt is gone, Sundararajan a glorified product manager is in charge of google
dubiousadvocate t1_jc2iun3 wrote
Reply to comment by londons_explorer 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
The value of the data comes from the quality of data. What we’re seeing with twitter is the data is low quality, too much noise not enough signal.
This was true before Musk was forced to buy Twitter. In fact when Musk finally got around to doing basic due diligence after he locked himself into the deal he himself used the low quality as his reason to bail out. 🙄🤣
Ok_Sir5926 t1_jc2isn0 wrote
Reply to comment by MustacheInterpreter 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
It's a method they choose to use because there's people on it.
Are you implying there's no way to talk to a large audience of people in 2023 without a specific free social media platform?
skilliard7 t1_jc2iigb wrote
Reply to comment by Ok_Sir5926 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
You do realize most people use it to keep up on things they follow, but don't post, right? It's a nice centralized location.
MustacheInterpreter t1_jc2ih4d wrote
Reply to comment by Ok_Sir5926 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
Just an aside: Ukraine uses Twitter to put its cause directly before the world. Nascent rebellions, such as in Iran, do also. Twitter is about far more than me showing you what I'm eating.
tundey_1 t1_jc2yyrk wrote
Reply to comment by Ok_Sir5926 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
>Just stop using it, and then touch grass.
It's not mutually exclusive to use Twitter and to "touch grass".