I wonder what happens to embedded tweets since they are the basis of approximately 80% of journalism these days. Either journalists will have to start screencapping the tweets, or if that’s against Twitter’s TOS, actually start doing their fucking jobs as journalists and write out the content of the tweet in their own words.
I was just over on the r/worldnews livethread on the Ukraine war and the embedded tweets were showing up just fine. I’d actually forgotten about this thread and tried clicking on one for further details, and got the “you’re not logged in” notification.
Ironically, I had a Twitter account years ago that I created purely because something I was doing at the time required one for login purposes. I never used it and I can only assume it was deleted a few months back when Twitter said they were purging “inactive” accounts. I’m certainly not creating a new one now.
actually start doing their fucking jobs as journalists and write out the content of the tweet in their own words.
Right, does that mean the publication that wants to embed tweets gets their own API key and uses that to embed tweets, or is it just some anonymous HTTP request to Twitter’s REST API? If it’s the former, then yeah, it should continue to work.
I wonder what happens to embedded tweets since they are the basis of approximately 80% of journalism these days. Either journalists will have to start screencapping the tweets, or if that’s against Twitter’s TOS, actually start doing their fucking jobs as journalists and write out the content of the tweet in their own words.
I was just over on the r/worldnews livethread on the Ukraine war and the embedded tweets were showing up just fine. I’d actually forgotten about this thread and tried clicking on one for further details, and got the “you’re not logged in” notification.
Ironically, I had a Twitter account years ago that I created purely because something I was doing at the time required one for login purposes. I never used it and I can only assume it was deleted a few months back when Twitter said they were purging “inactive” accounts. I’m certainly not creating a new one now.
They’ve got ChatGPT for that now.
Embedded tweets use the Twitter API AFAIK so that should still work.
Right, does that mean the publication that wants to embed tweets gets their own API key and uses that to embed tweets, or is it just some anonymous HTTP request to Twitter’s REST API? If it’s the former, then yeah, it should continue to work.