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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 1:23 pm
by Malcolm
Fuckers.
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.
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 2:06 pm
by TheCatt
Well, Twitter has a rule: Don't store deleted tweets.
They broke that rule.
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 2:29 pm
by TPRJones
So why hasn't the New York Times been banned yet for all the times they've published deleted tweets?
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 3:55 pm
by TheCatt
The NY Times doesn't use Twitter's API.
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 6:41 pm
by TPRJones
Still, they are nonetheless violating the terms of service, no?
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 7:40 pm
by TheCatt
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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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 7:55 pm
by TPRJones
Ah, okay. Fair enough, then.