Even funnier that the current weirdness is an obvious result of the batshit API pricing.
Anyone interested in low end tinkering wa suddenly incentivized to sidestep the API and just scrape the oEmbed or web endpoints, and they did. So he locked out unregistered visitors and killed embedding, which broke every citation of a tweet on the Internet.
Then people start using logged in sessions to get that data. So he limits *actual logged in users* to only viewing 600 tweets per day.
Eaton /
npub1rj…rp6m6
2023-07-01 18:32:05
in reply to nevent1q…slk7
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2023-07-01 18:32:05Event JSON
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