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yes but those extra steps make the difference. those extra steps are the entire point. The difference between using the blessed client and using a preferred client that previously accessed the platform via an API is those steps!

RSS!

For those who need timely access to information that is only available on Twitter, the account is unavoidable.

The benefit of extra steps is a client under user control, e.g. filtering, RSS, better threading and more.

If timely is the key criterion isn’t sticking a caching layer in the middle the opposite of helping?

Transparent, deterministic, user-controlled caching and filtering > black-box Twitter display algos that change unpredictably.