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Twitter launches new API as it tries to make amends with third-party developers

The Verge

It began slowly squeezing out third-party devs, blocking them from new features like polls and group DMs, and shepherding users toward the company’s own apps. Only the basic, free level is launching today, and that has limits on how many API calls developers can make (aka how frequently their software can ping Twitter for data).

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. Brands can reduce adjacency to gore, excessive profanity and obscenity, targeted hate speech, sexual content, drugs and spam. In other words, Twitter has a Verified user spam problem.

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

NTEN

Most real-time search companies believe that's not enough to power a full index and rely on other sources of additional links to look at, often from the click-streams of users who have downloaded their software and opted-in to exposing their online behavior anonymously. These services are fun and useful.

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[VIDEO] The Early Bird Guide to Epic End of Year Fundraising

Bloomerang

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond these webinars, we’re actually a provider of donor management software. I’m going to be kicking things off in a couple minutes with some awesome polls to get to know you better. Take my poll, fundraising friends. That’s what Bloomerang is. So humor me.

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It’s (still) time to end ‘Trending’ on Twitter

The Verge

Our algorithms are designed to identify representative Tweets that aren’t potentially abusive, spam, or posted by accounts trying to take advantage of our system. Trending up : Snapchat is partnering with Power the Polls to encourage users to volunteer as poll workers on Election Day. Mike Allen / Axios ).

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