Comment by mb7733

Comment by mb7733 3 days ago

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> One thing I haven't seen written about much is how these APIs turned into massive liabilities for privacy. If a Twitter API allows me to siphon tweets off of Twitter, you can never delete them.

Is that really a privacy concern? Tweets are public. As soon as you post them, others can just save the page. No need for an API.

bloppe 2 days ago

Data brokers don't care about easy APIs anyway. They'll save that tweet even if it takes a dozen engineers, a global bot net, and millions in cloud spend to do it at scale