• prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What did he even think the purpose of APIs were. Data scraping puts unnecessary load on servers only to scrape out majority of the content. It’s funny how he shoots himself in the leg and now complain.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know about twitter but it is common for the API to also be powering the front end regular user’s interact with. No matter what it’s stupid to rate limit this heavily.

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        1 year ago

        True. REST APIs are a godsend to create structures and effectively communicate data. Shame its on the hands of these whimsical cry-baby CEOs