Twitter Implodes: Film at 11

July 28, 2023

by Karl Denninger Market-Ticker.org

Twitter has been an interesting “beast”; it has had material differences from the other social-media sewers which made it more-useful, and thus for the last decade or so it has been the only social media account I’ve maintained.

A large part of this was due to two factors: It had an API that made “announcing” new articles here easy via a text client (thus a simple shell script did the job) and it had Tweetdeck, a web page-based app that, on a desktop, allowed you to set up “columns” that contained lists of people you wished to follow and similar, and those columns updated automatically as things happened.

Well, Elon has changed the platform in many ways. One of them was to destroy the API access for those who weren’t paying fees. That’s his right to do, of course, since he owns it, but since I am not attempting to earn six or more figures of income from this venture, I’m not going to pay. Oh well.

But then there was the so-called (as he claims) “Every AI is training itself on my content!” screed he recently ran and started rate-limiting people. This, along with an “update” to Tweetdeck, destroyed the utility of that access method as well.