“Free speech”
his speech, not ours
he meant free twitter from speech the whole time
We had an ongoing project studying network communication structures within social media groups. The primary goal was to identify patterns of misinformation dissemination. We lost our ability to poll the API and pull messages to build up our data sets to work with. The cost to hit the API used to be free for a limited rate for researchers, but the new doofus in charge demanded a massive rate to get even a reasonable quantity of data so we had to fold up shop. We just routed the students to other projects, but it’s one more way to isolate and control the network so the dictator can be in charge however they like.
Why does anyone still use this platform, anyway?
They’re losing users and advertisers every day. It’s mostly just his bots and fascists now that are still on it.
It’s useful for keeping an eye on the chuds in some places. Since the API got neutered it’s harder to do it with automated tools, though.
There’s been a steady exodus of news and legal people onto Threads. Techie people seem to be moving more to Mastodon.
Once the automated posting tools catch up with the Threads and Mastodon APIs, there will be less reason to check anything relevant on Twitter.
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Reminds me of security research in the late 90’s.
Can’t have hate speech and misinformation running rampant if nobody is keeping track of the data.
You may admire, but from afar
social studies news are not technology.
