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No word on the most important thing: the limits.

Current limits that keep becoming stricter and stricter make the API unusable.

I was looking into doing something for my own use, and you can't even retrieve your own list of followers or blocked users in one go! You have to paginate it, each page is counted against the rate limit!

Everything non-streaming from Twitter has always been paginated, no? Same with all YouTube, probably FB too right?

Same with everything ever, some users have hundreds of thousands of followers, I'm not sure how you would do it without pagination.

The limits are tight. It's true. But pagination is not the enemy.

I think better scaling of the pricing tiers could help but Twitter probably doesn't care enough about small devs.

That's what killed off Falcon Pro. The author released a version of the APP with a secret way of putting in your own API keys and I used that for a bit. Then he released a new version, but couldn't just grant the old people access because it would quickly reach the rate limit.

It was about that time I just totally abandoned Twitter.

Use Mastodon/Pleroma/Misskey. Fuck lock-ins. ActivyPub forever!

I don't understand what is the issue if user can add their own keys - just release the app with default set of keys or even without and let the user set their own.

Other than that, indeed Mastodon and co. are great. :)

Limits seem to be in the documentation on per resource-base.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/api-reference-index

Or is this the old documentation?

Limit is your wallet

No joke. I maintain a bot that interfaces with the Twitter API to take in tweets and post tweets from specific users in chat channels.

I read this blog post to determine a) what I need to do to port to the new API and b) how much this privilege of using Twitter will cost me, and it is mum on both of those aspects.

Absolutely brilliant, Twitter.

I guess it's a case of "If you've got to ask, you can't afford it"

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