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  1. About to present my keynote at the Social Media Access Days in Frankfurt, revisiting our discussion about the 2018 #APIcalypse nearly a decade later. Slides are up already on my blog ! #SMAD2026

    snurb.info/node/3545

  2. Facebook closed its API long ago, pretending it was because of Cambridge Analytica (but the real reason was commecial), shutting down many research projects on social media.

    #WAC #APIcalypse

  3. Just thinking back to 2016 when r/thedonald was constantly making its way to the top of reddit for years and none of the team at reddit did anything.

    Now with these API changes and devs/users making posts actively complaining about what a bad choice it is and how folks are planning to leave reddit en-masse, you barely hear about them despite the threads being heavily upvoted (usually up to something like 100k+ upvotes - usually 3k is enough to get a thread to the frontpage).

    I look back on that shitshow in 2016 with even more pennies dropping.

    #reddit #api #apicalypse #thedonald #spez #moderation #admin

  4. Yes, Twitter API is still available for free. Current free access tiers will be deprecated over the next 15 days. #APIcalypse is coming…

  5. I've decided to make some sense of the burning trashcan called #TwitterAPI: superface.ai/blog/twitter-api-

    (Also what are the appropriate hashtags here? #botpocalypse? #APIcalypse? Jeez, it's just Twitter, not the end of the world.)

  6. We’ll be back with more details on what you can expect next week.

    Two days until #APIcalypse and all we know is that -maybe- it’ll be $100/month for <unknown> or that “good content bots” will be free.

    Glad I’m not looking after something that uses the API for a company. Can you imagine trying to get a purchase order for “Uh, well, dunno yet? Maybe $100/month?”

    Yo, companies, move to the Fedi, there are fewer idiot billionaires ruining the place.

  7. Continuing this #twitter #apicalypse topic. I just had two very successful coding days. I implemented and tested two new features into our Tweetsearcher tool: bounding box and user timeline searches for a given time period.

    Lesson learned: modular code is awesome

  8. The "announcement" of @TwitterDev stopping the free level API access next week leaves a lot of questions. F.e. will this affect websites using Twitter/OAuth for their login? I guess so… madness!

    PS: I haven't used hashtag #APIcalypse since 2018! 🤣 twitter.com/i/web/status/16211