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Twitter's hostility comes down to jealously defending their business model. They declared war on third party clients about a decade ago, and that hasn't really changed. You'll note the API available under the new, looser, rules does not include any equivalent of the home timeline endpoint, which would be pretty essential to the client use case. A third party client could do things like not show their embedded ads (promoted tweets), or display the timeline in a manner more useful to the user than to Twitter's engagement metrics, and Twitter don't like that.

They've been pretty ok towards e.g. making your CSR tool interface with twitter to answer support requests over Twitter.

This doesn't really strike me as a change in direction, though it does look easier for people in the second category to get started.



By any chance do you know whether V2 has an endpoint for bookmarks?


The v2 docs are here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/migrate/tw...

There doesn't look to be.

I think it has been updated in the last few hours - they've added a link to a trello board created 4 hours ago, and I don't remember a [COMING SOON] replacement for home timeline being there previously. So maybe they're going to add more endpoints than currently exist, but it'll take a lot to not have people worried about another rug pull.


I had seen the api endpoints earlier and noticed that bookmarks were absent. But as I am not a professional user of this API, I wanted to see whether more knowledgeable people know anything I may have missed. Thanks for confirming it!


The bookmarks API is being worked on and is on the roadmap https://t.co/roadmap


what business model?




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