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Eric Peacock

@evilpeacock

Media designer & artist: video/motion graphics + front-end design. Side gigs: musician, photographer, father of twins. https://xitter.cf/t.co/pFflxCnJQI

 Seattle, WA
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Joined April 2009
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Years ago I got a Twitter client called Tweetie with a MacHeist app bundle. I tried it out and liked it. Later I "upgraded" to #Tweetbot, sticking with it. Until now. I *really* don't enjoy Twitter w/o a 3rd-party app. So it's time to move on, or at least quietly fade away.
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@XDevelopers17 Jan 2023
Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Currently it's all major third party clients not some. Also, it is unknown what long standing rules have been broken as no guidance has been provided to any API partner. And as the tweet notes, these rules have not changed. 9to5mac.com/2023/01/17/twi… developer.twitter.com/en/developer-t….
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"This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself." waxy.org/2023/07/twitter-bug…
Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur...

Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur...

An "amateur hour" Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk's "temporary emergency measures" to stop web scraping.

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I'm currently helping a widow wrangle her deceased partner's web properties. Navigating settings, DNS, or WHOIS details are overwhelming my client. Plus a dead email account is involved, which locks her out. Don't neglect WHOIS updates + set a backup plan with loved ones!
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★ Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff daringfireball.net/2023/03/t…
Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff

Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff

There is something noble about two longtime rivals — competitors, yes, but with nothing but deep respect and camaraderie for each other — facing this terrible cliff together, with dignity and grace,...

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you probably remember this photograph. it's one of the more iconic of the awful images of the nazi torch march at UVA on august 11, 2017. on august 12, the man in the center was elated to see himself on the cover of papers across the county. today, i can tell you he is dead.
a group of men holding lit tiki torches is standing in front of the UVA rotunda. their mouths are open, mid-chant. photo credit: andrew shurtleff, daily progress

ALT a group of men holding lit tiki torches is standing in front of the UVA rotunda. their mouths are open, mid-chant. photo credit: andrew shurtleff, daily progress

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Tip: Creative folks working on healthcare projects should definitely check out healthicons.org for lovely open source public domain health-related iconography.
Health Icons: free, open source health icons (SVG & PNG)

Health Icons: free, open source health icons (SVG & PNG)

Free icons made for health projects. Download them for your website, app or report and use them anywhere, no credit needed.

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Kat Scott 🐀@kscottz19 Jan 2023
Don't take it personally if you just got laid off, it was to make the line go up. The line must always go up. If people think the line is going to go down you must make a human sacrifice. We are all subservient to the line.
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@GergelyOrosz19 Jan 2023
To understand why layoffs are happening at Big Tech, it's not enough to understand if a company is profitable. Microsoft's profits (net income) for 2022 was at $72B: this is above the *revenue* it had every year before 2012. Layoffs have to do with shareholder's expectations:
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Heartbreaking #tweebot memorial, but I also welcome the closure. tapbots.com/tweetbot/
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kottke.org@kottke19 Jan 2023
It's official: Twitter's new rules for accessing their API forbid creating third-party clients. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. theverge.com/2023/1/19/23562…
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Days after dropping some 3rd-party clients w/o warning or response, Twitter retcons their terms-of-service to disallow developers to create apps. All this user/developer user hostility would piss me off even if I hadn't been a #tweetbot user since 2012. engadget.com/twitter-new-dev…
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Lakota Man
@LakotaMan118 Jan 2023
Thanks to President Biden’s infrastructure bill, remote locations on the Navajo Nation reservation are receiving electricity — for the first time, ever. – at Los Angeles, CA
Image from Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1)
Image from Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1)
Image from Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1)
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Craig Hockenberry: ‘The Shit Show’ daringfireball.net/linked/20…
Craig Hockenberry: ‘The Shit Show’

Craig Hockenberry: ‘The Shit Show’

Link to: https://furbo.org/2023/01/15/the-shit-show/

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Twitter’s Rummage Sale daringfireball.net/linked/20…
Twitter’s Rummage Sale

Twitter’s Rummage Sale

Link to: https://www.bidspotter.com/en-us/auction-catalogues/heritage-global-partners/catalogue-id-herita10194

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16 Years Ago: ‘Introducing Twitterrific’ daringfireball.net/linked/20…
16 Years Ago: ‘Introducing Twitterrific’

16 Years Ago: ‘Introducing Twitterrific’

Link to: https://blog.iconfactory.com/2007/01/introducing-twitterrific/

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There’s Weak Sauce, and Then There’s Weak Sauce daringfireball.net/linked/20…
There’s Weak Sauce, and Then There’s Weak Sauce

There’s Weak Sauce, and Then There’s Weak Sauce

Link to: https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1615405842735714304

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If You Needed Any More Confirmation, Internal Slack Messages at Twitter Show That Cutting Off Third-Party Clients Was ‘Intentional’ daringfireball.net/linked/20…
If You Needed Any More Confirmation, Internal Slack Messages at Twitter Show That Cutting Off...

If You Needed Any More Confirmation, Internal Slack Messages at Twitter Show That Cutting Off...

Link to: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-intentionally-suspended-tweet-bot-third-party-apps-messages-show?rc=jfy0lk

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Eric Peacock retweeted
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Cabel Sasser@cabel14 Jan 2023
“A Twitter employee […] asked when employees could expect a list of ‘approved talking points’ for questions from partners related to ‘3party clients revoked access.’ A product marketing manager responded that the company had ‘started to work on comms’.” —The Information/Erin Woo
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Eric Peacock retweeted
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Ged Maheux@gedeon13 Jan 2023
“Unsurprisingly, Twitter’s communication has been disastrous and cowardly. If the company was planning to make changes to the Twitter API, those changes should have been well-communicated to developers ahead of time." That’s the meat of it. 👏👏👏 9to5mac.com/2023/01/13/tweet…
Elon Musk silent on Twitter API change that broke Tweetbot, others

Elon Musk silent on Twitter API change that broke Tweetbot, others

Tweetbot, Twitteriffic, and other popular third-party clients for Twitter are still completely broken due to issues with Twitter’s API. Despite...

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Twitter not explaining or even acknowledging what’s going on shows a certain contempt not just for developers of third-party apps but also a percentage of its own users, including some pretty influential ones. 9to5google.com/2023/01/12/tw…
Twitter API appears to be down, breaking Tweetbot and third-party clients

Twitter API appears to be down, breaking Tweetbot and third-party clients

Twitter clients are broken left and right as the API unexpectedly went down on January 11, even bringing down Tweetbot.

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Eric Peacock retweeted
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kottke.org@kottke13 Jan 2023
Twitter has apparently shut down access to several of the most popular 3rd-party Twitter clients, including Twitterrific and Tweetbot. No official word on whether it's a bug or a policy, but either way: so dumb. Erratic clown car company. blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01…
State of the Twitterverse • The Breakroom

State of the Twitterverse • The Breakroom

Last night at about 7:30pm PST, Twitterrific customers started reporting problems accessing Twitter via the iOS app. News quickly spread on Twitter and Mastodon that a wide range of third party apps...

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