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Just the other day I went to use the good old fashioned twitter API to find that it had been deprecated in favor of a new one that requires that I do everything differently in order to get the same results. Really irked me. I can empathize with this guy.

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Yeah. I wanted to read some tweets, but apparently I now need a stupid API token and have to do OAuth! What happened to the good old days of session-less read only-mode APIs?! :(

Well, in the case of Twitter: Justin Bieber happened.

Eh?

Justin Bieber is my internal shorthand for: Twitter's API changes are based around the fact that they care more about celebrities and media than around being a good web API citizen or whatever. ;-)

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