Twitter bribed by politicians

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 1:23 pm

Twitter was able to suspend API access to the sites after it followed a "thoughtful internal deliberation and close consideration of a number of factors."

My ass.

Post by **TheCatt** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 2:06 pm

Well, Twitter has a rule: Don't store deleted tweets.

They broke that rule.

Post by **TPRJones** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 2:29 pm

So why hasn't the New York Times been banned yet for all the times they've published deleted tweets?

Post by **TheCatt** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 3:55 pm

The NY Times doesn't use Twitter's API.

Post by **TPRJones** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 6:41 pm

Still, they are nonetheless violating the terms of service, no?

Post by **TheCatt** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 7:40 pm

TPRJones wrote:Still, they are nonetheless violating the terms of service, no?

Nope, the terms of service were for the use of the API.

I'm sure there's ToS issues around scraping the web (in terms of volume), but snapshotting a singlle or few deleted tweets does not appear to cause a violation from what I've read.

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Post by **TPRJones** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 7:55 pm

Ah, okay. Fair enough, then.