• meco03211@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Serious question, how were these not found earlier? Couldn’t they just completely scrape his xitter account with keywords pretty quickly?

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      2 months ago

      I think this just illustrates (1) how much Elon has locked down the API access, and (2) how much less Twitter matters in culture now.

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Nah, nothing stopped anyone from manually checking his posts. This is our lazy, useless media.

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        1 month ago

        No it just shows how much journalists single-sourced everything they wrote from Twitter for nearly 2 decades and still haven’t figured out how to do their jobs without it.

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      1 month ago

      They were found earlier, I saw this tweet resurface when he was first chosen as Trumps VP. This article is just talking about old news.