Comment by pavlov

Comment by pavlov 10 months ago

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But that's too sensible and user-friendly. It would be obviously weird and wrong if they inserted ads and Musk's tweets into someone's RSS feed. Yet showing those unwanted insertions is the whole purpose of the company now.

sunaookami 10 months ago

Twitter shut off RSS access over 10 years ago along with their popular 1.1 API.

  • pavlov 10 months ago

    I know. Because it wasn’t compatible with their aim of showing ads.

    And nothing has changed after Twitter went private under Musk, except that the reasons for stuffing unwanted content into users’ timelines are slightly different.

    • xNeil 10 months ago

      I don't think that's fair - getting back the chronological timeline itself made the purchase a good one in my eyes, alongside the For You feed, which seems to work wonderfully (for me). Not to forget you can literally turn off ads if you want. I seem to be a real minority, but I do genuinely believe Musk has done a great job with Twitter (or X).