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Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we'll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble.
Twitter has finally announced details for it's new Account Activity API, which replaces the Streaming API third-party clients have relied on up until now — and the news isn't good.
Today we're excited to announce the general availability of Account Activity API. Now developers can get started for free, upgrade to premium as they scale, and move to enterprise when they need even more subscriptions or enterprise functionality. https://t.co/AkMCDNOxbs
— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) May 16, 2018
This API suits Twitters goal of feeding analytics and entertainment products, but it's a heavy blow to developers of third-part Twitter apps like Twitterrific and Tweetbot, and services like the already shutting down Favstar. Here's why:
There's no streaming connection capability as is used by only 1% of monthly active apps. Also there's no home timeline data. We have no plans to add that data to Account Activity API or create a new streaming service. However, home timeline data remains accessible via REST API.
— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) May 16, 2018
So, to start with, third-party clients will have to discontinue features like live updates and activity information. Developers at The Iconfactory, which created the first-ever third-party Twitter Client, Twitterrific, have been sharing their reactions:
The public pricing that I'm seeing shows Twitter's Account Activity API pricing as $2,899/month to get activity updates… for 250 users.
— Sean Heber (@BigZaphod) May 16, 2018
Needless to say, we have more than 250 users.
It's possible an "enterprise" deal could be made, but it seems unlikely to be affordable.
The math works out to about $10 per user a month to get push notifications. On a platform where people balk at spending 99¢…
— Craig Hockenberry (@chockenberry) May 16, 2018
Make it $14 or more once associated costs are added and implemented, which would be untenable.
It's possible Twitter will work with developers to come up with affordable alternatives and even feature workarounds. There are no guarantees, though. And the bigger problem remains: Twitter, for years now, has through action and innaction been terrorizing the developers that helped make the service popular in the very early days of the service.
Favstar has already announced it's shutting down due to the uncertainty and constraints Twitter continues to introduce.
August 16, 2018 is the new end-of-life date for the old Streaming API. We'll have to wait and see how many third-party apps and services it takes along with it.
Twitter est en train de tuer Twitter
Clermont-Ferrand, France
Créée en 2011 à Marseille par Laurent Dahan, Wiko était déjà passée dans les mains du chinois Tinno depuis plusieurs années puisqu'il détenait 95 % des parts de la société. ...
Donc Wiko est maintenant une marque totalement chinoise ! Cocoricoooo !
Clermont-Ferrand, France
Depuis août, les mois se suivent et se ressemblent pour Free qui ne cesse de baisser dans l'indice des débits Netflix. Il s'agit pour rappel, d'une moyenne calculée aux heures de grandes écoutes, sans plus de précisi...
C'est vrai que là ça deviens catastrophique chez @LaLigneDeFree
Clermont-Ferrand, France
Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Do we just suck at computers? ;)
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New York City
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Install updates. By all means.
Lexington, KY; Naples, FL
New zero-day vulnerability: In addition to rowhammer, it turns out lots of servers are vulnerable to regular hammers, too.
Raquel Rutledge and Andrew Mollica, reporting for The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Seven years ago, TripAdvisor repeatedly removed a post written by Kristie Love, a 35-year-old mother of two from Dallas. Love told how she had been raped by a security guard at a highly rated all-inclusive Mexican resort owned by the global chain, Iberostar, based in Spain.
She wrote how, after an evening with friends, she had returned to her room to find the electronic key card no longer opened her door at the Iberostar Paraiso near Playa del Carmen. She headed to the lobby of the sprawling resort to get her card reactivated and stopped to ask a uniformed guard whether she was walking in the right direction.
He motioned her to follow him, then overpowered her, dragged her into some bushes and raped her. When she reached the lobby in tears, hotel staff refused to call police.
A TripAdvisor moderator spotted the post soon after it had published and deemed it in violation of the company’s “family friendly” guidelines.
The following year, another young woman, 19 and on vacation with her family, reported to hotel officials in the same resort complex that a security guard had raped her in the bathroom.
And in 2015, still another woman, Jamie Valeri, 34, a mother of six from Wisconsin, was sexually assaulted at the same resort after she and her husband simultaneously blacked out in the middle of the day, barely into their third drink.
It’s positively sickening that as a matter of TripAdvisor policy, actual rapes, sexual assaults, and druggings are OK, but reports about these crimes on their forums are not. TripAdvisor should get sued out of existence.
Clermont-Ferrand, France
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