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Comment by benmarten

1 day ago

No x?

I did not include it yet, because you have to pay for the API. They changed their pricing model recently to pay only per request. I'll be looking into it the next weeks

I’d argue it’s not worth it. Engagement and referral traffic from it continue to tank.

Do people still think twitter is a valuable place (besides being bot owners).

  • I’m not a power user/poster but I see it as no less valuable than many other similar places. All of them have similar problems. For me it’s probably bifurcated by time spent tuning the feeds.

  • I know some people have ideological things going on that make them choose different networks, but they have more than half a billion active users so it's not exactly a ghost town.

    • I go check it out once a month, it's nothing but bots, AI hustlers and Musk jerking. Why would any brand actively invest in their presence there?

    • In The Netherlands it’s a full on crazy town. I’m not kidding. It’s bottom of the barrel vitriolic garbage. Not one positive , insightful or interesting tweet among them.

  • Value? Are others valuable? Why are they buying bots if there's nobody else? At least it's an RSS reader :)