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First off I dont mind what OS you are using. This rant isnt about the OS but about hypocrisy for some of the users. Secondly Im sorry for typos, I typed it on my phone while waking up.
People are calling Windows spyware, so they are using Linux or MacOS. Even though I disagree with the term spyware I would be fine with that if you weren't a hypocrite.
How many of the people who use Linux and call windows spyware uses Google, Apple, Facebook or Twitter once in a while? I highly doubt you if you say you don't.
A few years back Ive tried to live without anything of google, this also meant blocking YouTube, their trackers an javascript libraries.
Not much of the internet still works if you block google servers.
Google is everywhere and always collects data.
Facebook and twitter also collects data about you. Everyone who has your number in their phone will share it with Whatsapp and google so they can build up a profile. Even if you dont block it.
What I am telling you is that its impossible to avoid being tracked by these companies (including MS).
Every company I mentioned here has a profile on you, if you want it or not.
So let's check which of these companies tries to follow European laws.
Google gets fine after fine but doesnt really try to avoid it.
It looks like Apple, MS, Facebook and Twitter are doing it better on this.
But if you check the European law every European citizen is allowed to request their complete profile collected by a company. And that means complete and not the public part you volunteered to give away.
So I tried it out.
Google didnt want to give it, apple didnt want to give it, Facebook didnt want to give it and Twitter doesnt want to give it.
The hypocrisy is becoming clesr with the following. I did get my complete profile from MS. It was a messy PDF file which crashed most PDF readers.
It contained a list of people I know and how I know them. It contained MS accounts I had in the past and my hobbies. (and quite a lot more)
So from these big companies MS is the only one following the European Law.
So yes they do collect data, but they are open in what they collect.
And Im not saying here that Microsoft is great just because they follow the law.
You can have your own opinion about this and do with it what you want. I just wanted to share some, maybe alternative, facts.
And again this isn't an OS rant or whatever. I dont mind what you do, but I do mind hypocrisy.21 -
Twitter: "Your account has been locked because it is displaying automated behaviour which violates blah blah blah..."
I literally have 7 Twitter accounts and you have picked the only one which ISN'T automated FFS4 -
I fucking hate these annoying new "notifications" on Twitter:
"Blah, Yada and 3 others you only follow out of awkward politeness liked a Tweet from some boring cunt you don't even know."
"Yada's sister's fucking dog's flea and three other people you wouldn't piss on if they caught fire retweeted something you most likely don't agree with."
"Blah and Yada—"
Fuck you, Twitter, fuck you with a baseball bat wrapped in sanding paper, I DON'T GIVE A FLYING FUCK!
WHERE THE FUCK DO I SWITCH THESE BULLSHIT NOTIFICATIONS OFF, FOR MOTHERWHORE'S SAKE?!17 -
All the new computer science students at my university refer to include statements in C++ as "hashtag include"23
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Seeing how people dislike idea pitches like "It's like Uber but for ...".
I can't help but imagine how the idea of devRant might have been pitched -
"It's like Twitter but for frustrated developers" 😋7 -
Just found this gem on Twitters API...
When your app gets too excited they return status code 420 to tell you to chill! 😂😂😂
Fyi : For the non web-devs out there 420 is an invalid http code.
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WHY THE BLOODY HELL does everything auto play, if I wanted to see your video I would click play, DO NOT ASSUME I want o see your shitty video.8
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If the time comes when the traditional signing in with email dies out, I don't know how long I'm gonna last to the Internet anymore. I never liked the idea of having my accounts associated with these giants especially with Facebook.
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Saw my GitHub project shared on social media. WTF? Guess what the thumbnail is everytime it's shared. Why does GitHub use my fucking face? Fork You!
**changing avatar...**4 -
Person- Hey! are you a game developer?
me- yea.
person- Nice! so, you make games, right?
me- NO! I fuckin' scroll through my Twitter feed!
person- Ahm hah.. ok then, ttyl.
me- T.T6 -
Tried to double tap on a programming joke in the iOS Twitter app... Closed Twitter and opened devRant.4
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devRant is truly amazing, a social network where I don't have to give up on privacy by giving out my number to confirm that I am legit when I'd use something as a VPN to protect my identity (unlike twitter facebook and google)
Thanks for giving a fuck about privacy and not giving a fuck about my data11 -
Me: *unsubscribes from Twitter emails*
Twitter: successfully unsubscribed! We're still gonna see you emails tho, lmaoo2 -
Am I the only one who fucking hates how the Twitter feed currently works, or rather doesn't work? The more I use it, the more I feel that whoever thought of this idiotic feed sequence couldn't manage to fart on a diet of baked beans.
The whole feed is chaotic as fuck. I've got news for you, Twitter! When the tweet order on the feed is asynchronous, it's about as useful as a chili-flavoured suppository. If I go through my feed, I don't want to see two tweets from three days ago placed between a bunch of tweets from ten minutes ago ; that's fucking stupid. Don't show me what you *think* I want to see, or what you want me to see: show me what I *actually* want to see, and put it in the correct order, you tools.
I don't care for your 'sponsored' tweets either, so stick them where daddy put his thumb when he visited you at night.
And no, Twitter, I don't want to use your fucking App. If I wanted you to spy on me, I'd send you the key to my apartment and call you when I have to take a piss.4 -
Messing around with twitter4j and accidentally got my account locked because a simple typo made me favorite 2k+ tweets in under a few seconds. Oops.3
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When you are in the elevator with like 20 people and everyone is looking at a white screen with ads and pictures and a blue tab bar in the top.
And i am the only one with the strange looking purple app and only english with no ads.
Time to stop twitter and facebook.8 -
Get an email from Twitter about updating my account security, but that’s not even my account
Oh the blissful irony
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I working on Twitter Cilent for android as school project, and I made code getting the logged in user own tweets, but it not returned anything, and after one hour trying I realized I never post tweet with example account....3
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justfollowus.io
ontwitter.io
because.io
wehave.io
abeautiful.io
name.io
and.io
logo.io
even if you don't know what we do. just fucking use our tools.io4 -
Never posted on 9Gag, never twittered and almost never posted on Facebook, because I thought it is unnecessary and not interesting. But man, ranting here feels so good with every ++ I get 😁
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Ranted a while ago about Twitter blocking my account.
They now have opened my account as "suspended", which is weird but oh well. Catch is I can't follow people. I mean, I was just following lonely luke and emo kylo. And that dude who did pbs idea channel on YouTube and gave up a while ago. So, not much is lost.
And this got me thinking, because today I was reading someone's rant mentioning that they don't have any friends.
Why the fuck does all social media insist on the need for you to have friends? Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc, they all force you to HAVE FRIENDS because apparently friends grow on trees and fall on your feet as you walk down the street. No. Not all of us have friends all the fucking time. Some of us don't bother our friends with every fucking app.
I'm gonna lay it down plain and simple: as someone who has been popular in real life, I know for a fact that one does not have time for everyone. So if you have "too many" friends, chances are you have no real friends and your loneliness is killing you (fucking Britney ruined this line!) which makes it a logical conclusion that Facebook and Twitter are filled with lonely people pretending to have fun with people they don't like. Which makes these networks really antisocial bodies driving their main users to serious mental illnesses.
This is not an issue with the platforms per se, the issue is with the business goals behind the platform that aim for commercially using people without considering the costs and consequences. This is occasionally also the issue with trying to create "safe environments" by making people reveal their real life selves, while not considering the benefits of anonymity.
I mean, do I need to bring up the cyberbullying and teenage suicide rate arguments?
... Case dismissed.14 -
Reminder:
Change twitter passwd NOW and everywhere where you used that passwd.
Twitter somehow stored unencrypted passwd in logs. While they were probably never accessed by anyone its still better to change it right away.10 -
This Twitter Bot will make you addicted to Books.
That is the title I came up for this post.
Anyway I just wrote a new Twitter Bot that when tweeted the name of the book that you last read, it will reply back with a related book suggestion.
Feel free to take it for a spin and share your interesting finds. I know you will try to break it :)
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Some 'ethical hacker' living in my country scanned all domains of attachments in tweets of Donald Trump. He found out that one was expired and bought it for 10$. He then placed a arguingly funny movie at the exact location. Quite funny.
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump...3 -
I've had a Twitter bot running for just over a year now. It's going to gain it's 6000th Follower at some point today.
I find it odd that an automated account I made has more Followers than all of my human accounts across all social networks combined - a lot more. I like to wonder about my bot Followers, how many of them are bots? How many of them are real and feel an actual connection with "me" and look forward to my Tweets, blissfully unaware that it's a bot?16 -
Am pissed because I just came across a list on Twitter settings of literally all apps I've ever used on my phone. And I never gave such permission to the app to store this information. It's under settings => Your twitter data => apps on your device, on the Web thingo, if you're curious.
I NEVER GAVE THE APP THE PERMISSION TO ACCESS SUCH INFORMATION!! WHAT THE FUCK IS PLAYSTORE DOING?
Mother fucking twitter and mother fucking playstore.
If I ever see anyone who's working at twitter, I swear to God I'll punch them. Fucking moronic cunts.19 -
Z2: 3GB RAM
Z3: 3GB RAM
Z3+: 3GB RAM
Z4v: 3GB RAM
Z5: 3GB RAM
Z5 "Premium": 3GB RAM
X: 3GB RAM
X "Performance": 3GB RAM
ZX: 3GB RAM
Sony.. Alright...3 -
How do you keep up with new information coming out every day? Like every time I browse Hacker News, Reddit or Twitter after 2 days I feel like living in another planet... It gets overwhelming at times.1
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Signs up for Twitter.
Gets some followers.
Makes some tweets...
Gotta be nice. No anger. Don't want to look like a terrible person.
Be calm
It's not devrant.
Be nice. Breathe. Inhale..exhale.. calm Jason, be calm
Sees a tweet
Gets triggered
Le me:
Pick up a fucking phone. Even better, use a push to talk app so you don't even need to dial a fucking number! Fucking lazy moronic dickheads.4 -
Website WITH FB, Twitter, translate plugin:
Page size: 3.6MB
Requests: 97
Website WITHOUT FB, Twitter, translate plugin:
Page size: 680KB
Requests: 21
Wth!! And can't find a way to optimise these shits..4 -
Never judge thy abilities only judge those who promised to compile those oldest svn build and failed horribly. By macfranci on twitter
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Well, this is awkward!
(Had this notification pop up on my lock screen a few days back (OnePlus 5 user))
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Fucking twitter! They locked me out of my account for no fucking reason (maybe because I was using multiple vpns at some point in time, but that just proves their stupidity!) and now they're asking me for my phone number!
Twitter, suck my non-existent dick until you suffocate, but you ain't getting no phone number you bunch of information hoarding assholes! 😡😡7 -
So I had this conversation with my dad
Background : He saw news about some celebrity's Twitter account got hacked.
Dad : Do you know how to hack a Twitter account?
Me : No dad. There are ways for people who do this kind of stuff.
D : But, you studied software engineering!
M : Yeah, but I don't do hacking.
D : Although hacking is not ethical but everyone should know about their field.
*Awkwardly left the room*
Just because I studied computer science doesn't mean that I SHOULD know hacking.
And this is not the first conversation of this kind!5 -
A customer was complaining that the twitter feed on their homepage was listing strange tweets containing curses. somehow a JavaScript variable was not assigned correctly and got a value of 'undefined'. because @undefined is an existing twitter handle the code did not crash and went on displaying the wrong tweets.2
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Things common people do while in the toilet:
Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Games, etc...
Things I do while in the toilet:
DevRant4 -
Was debugging locally why my bot was inserting the same values twice into the database only to then realise my heroku worker was still on..
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Twitter emails are the nastiest shit somebody could have ever thought of, theres atleast five million variations of emails: suggestions, you missed these tweets, ... and every single one has to be unsubscribed via its own link, you can't just fucking unsubscribe from all its bullshit2
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A burden has been lifted off of me. The burden of social media. I hate it with every ounce of my soul(except twitter and devRant). The amount of time wasted it is unreal. Deleted my instagram last night and my snapchat this morning. It feels so good!!!!! Sure my classmates think I'm crazy but it is worth it. No negativity more time to focus, work and game. I think it is a huge win.
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!rant
> be me, tidying a bit
> "oh, still have a Twitter account, going to delete it"
> logs in
> WE HAVE UPDATED OUR PRIVACY POLICIES, YOU MUST AGREE
> doesn't agree
> "Oh noes, if you don't agree that will trigger your account deactivation process 😫"
> gdpr-how-do-they-work.jpg
> oh noes, indeed 😏
> click [Ok, deactivate my account]
> well, that was way quicker and easier than expected !
Thanks GDPR for this, thanks Twitter for not complying, saved me some hassle !2 -
For the people that missed my comment at the bottom of my last rant, I have gotten the Twitter account set up for my locker door Twitter project.
Here is the account:
https://twitter.com/LockerDoor2 -
To my dear friends complaining about GDPR, if companies providing free services in exchange for users data didn't fuck up completely, there wouldn't be any GDPR. In history, regulations always come after people fuck ups, uncle Bob has some nice talks about that.1
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When you wanna lunch a product and all domains with good names are taken; and when you find a good domain, the twitter handle is taken by an egg!!
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Me: *Showing the "You ! Count" image from devRant to a friend*
Friend: Haha! Nice one!
Me: You should install devRant, the image is from there
Friend: What is devRant?
Me: It's like Twitter, but only for programmers
Friend: No thanks, I don't like Twitter
I have failed you, master!2 -
had a crazy idea about replicating devRant for other industries, realized twitter was started in 2006 😂2
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I hate Twitter so much right now! I was trying to embed a timeline into my new website and it kept only showing me a link. I thought that my server config was messed up and re did everything from scratch. It turn out that when you use the Twitter embed tool, it doesn't add "https:" in front of the link to the js file. There is a week of work wasted because of a broken link.1
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Legit questions!
How does facebook secures itself, we never heard news like facebook hacked, user data stolen, recently with ddos, twitter and other websites were affected but not Facebook?
Are they superhumans?9 -
Hey guys, does someone knows if Twitter colludes with other websites and/or services to collect data, because I thought that privacy-wise, Twitter wasn’t as bad as Facebook as I just use Twitter to follow youtubers and Donald Trump(to keep up with his craziness) and never post anything. But I just got a Python Machine Learning ad just. And it’s spooky because I’m currently (trying to be) learning Deep Learning and Google knows it (🤬🤬 you udemy ads) but Twitter!!?? Do they have a way to link my account??
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So I work at a digital agency and the second my manager heard Twitter had upped its character limit he started planning out all the new hashtags and emojis he’s going to include to max out the limit.
Please Twitter, stop.1 -
A grammar analyzer for Twitter accounts. Basically trying to see how well or poor the grammar of a particular Twitter user is by analyzing their tweets.4
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For around 2-3 weeks ago, #DeleteFacebook was trending on here and that got me thinking about something. i saw alot of non-it people on fb, twitter and youtube talking about the facebook scandal and the importance of privacy (which is good). But what that it annoys me is how they think it will stop, just because they switch to a way worst social media about abusing your information (which they havent realized). Im talking about twitter, im suppressed that no one was talking about the nudes scandal (basically they have a team to look thought your DMs, to find nudes. confirmed by one of twitter´s former engneers).
https://thesun.co.uk/tech/5359347/... http://dailymail.co.uk/news/...4 -
I'm so pissed off at twitter REST API. On their site is a example: https://api.twitter.com/1.1/... but it doesn't work, Volley always returned 404, and guess what I tried. I changed the order of screen name and count to this: https://api.twitter.com/1.1/... and it works. I don't even. I sat there pulling my hair out for 2 hours just for this, fuck.
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Wtf outlook, that is just incredibly stupid
"Outlook for Windows converts :) to a smiley icon in Wingdings font, which is the same character as J and shows up as J if you don't have Wingdings installed." - https://twitter.com/timolaak/...5 -
People, even on devrant, are complaining about having to change their Twitter passwords. A major security event is not the only occasion to change your password (for anything).
You should change your passwords for everything regularly. Like, once every month or two.
This is why password managers are brilliant.7 -
Does anyone else feel kind of bad for Twitter at the moment?
They are trying all sorts but don't seem to be able to find something sustainable.6 -
Twitter spamming information making you think what you're learning is useless, I'm just trying to learn and get a job 😩
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Anyone else who keeps their social media clean? Like deleting your post/comment/like you made a month ago? I wonder where all this crap content on social media goes especially those posts on facebook groups. I like a clean history and I'm a little paranoid which helps. I'm also using a dummy fb account to join groups cause there's a shit ton of them and I don't want to contaminate my real account.6
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Since I can't make many posts, I'll try squeeze them all in one:
1. Phone recruitment interview went "well", I even spoke french at some point! 😃
I have to brush up my knowledge again for the technical test (I hate them). Somehow I got excited, which I shouldn't, but only time will tell...
2. My brain is stuck with opening a Twitter account, mainly for following people/companies news. I don't know if it's worth it, so I would your feedback on this.
3. I've finally come down to listening to synthwave while coding and I was wondering if there's any good free service (I'm still poor, so I don't want neither Deezer nor Spotify), preferably with a UWP app on Windows 10 (that is not Soundcloud).4 -
Just realised that I've not been on Twitter since downloading this app; just popped on and rejected 8 follower requests from bots, had a look around ... Saw it was still shit and came back here 😬
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!rant
For those devRanters who are active (or passive) on Twitter, I am looking for fellow programmers to follow.
I am looking for educational, interesting and funny tweets about coding/programming.
Of course if think you think you fit in the description, I would like to follow you too.
Do you have suggestions?16 -
Any good alternatives to Twitter? I already know about Gab and Mastodon. What else is there?
By "Twitter Alternative", I mean sites with brief posts, fast member activity, easy to follow users, simple enough to rank in followers, and decent rules.
Note: Tumblr, Reddit, any website builder ever, and any other too well-known social network is not a Twitter alternative.6 -
I have never thought that eventually I'll swap from Twitter to another feed-based app. It's already 2 weeks I forgot about Twitter. #devRant <3
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Created a new account on twitter. No link with any previous account, neither email, nor mobile number, dob, name or anything. But my friend followed in just 4 mins after I created. Was it just a coincidence?6
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Spent two hours debugging my filter for truncated tweets (ending with "...") Only to find out that Twitter uses a fucking ellipsis Unicode character
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Fuck, got one of my Twitter bots permanently suspended. Twitter won't even tell me why.
It was called "gifb0t" and simply searched for "favourite gif" every hour and Retweeted 5 of the search results.
It turned up some killer gifs.
But it also sometimes (unintentionally) found porn gifs... Maybe someone complained?
Frustrating as I have other bots that are allowed to keep running.
Farewell and thanks, gifb0t!
And fuck you, Twitter.2 -
Develop a facebook canvas app with share to Twitter, LinkedIn, pinterest, reddit, Google+ functions...1
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I am developing a twitter bot which will post local weather daily. After few test tweets, twitter locked the account and asked to verify account by calling. They called and I wrote down the verification code but THE FUCKING TWITTER returns a "Something went wrong." error with no actual clue about the problem.
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Built a little web app today, have a look if you care.
Soz about the load time
http://twitter-cleanup.code101.co.uk/...4 -
When you're discussing Twitter bootstrap w a fellow dev and someone else chimes in about how Twitter raised funds and is not a bootstrapped company..
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How the heck can Twitter's algorithms for selecting "Who to follow" and "Trends" suggestions? I tweet exclusively (but rarely) about tech, but Twitter seems to think that loudmouthed SJWs would be the perfect people for a tech tweeter to follow.
FFS, intersectional gender studies from a class struggle perspective are not of the slightest interest to a techie.
Maybe Twitter just selects the most frequent tweeters in you area, regardless of content.3 -
I was doing stuff in my room, when I slipped on my hand and landed on my knees. I look up, and I see my Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins puncturing my hand.
Fast-forward couple of hours, I decided to post a picture of it (it wasn't bleeding or anything) on Twitter. 2 seconds pass, and my account got suspended.
I have 2 simcards: one for calls, one for unlimited data.
Twitter is trying to call me to verify the account, but I have my data phone number in the profile.
FML.8 -
A developer just followed me on twitter and their description stated their game had 'FPS quality visuals'... What the fuck does that even mean?1
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Hey, I hear you like developers ranting! Maybe you also like developers swearing: https://twitter.com/gitlost1
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Am I the only one who right clicks on webpages with my mouse and looks for a "share on twitter" option??? Windows needs to get the FUCK with it.
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In the local country branch of the company where I’m working, the sales people are now being measured on how much they are actively promoting the our company’s products and services, on the social media sites. In short, the management team is looking at the LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook profiles of the sales people and each week doing a status check on how much they have promoted new products and services, and making it a score to be used in the individual reviews. Think that YOUR personal internet profile is no longer yours, and the content is decided by the company that you work for.
I’m glad I’m not in Sales.2 -
So i have this university 2018 - Test 4 Twitter coding challenge on hackkerank, does anyone have any experience about this?
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Why in the world there is no reasonable electron based desktop app for Twitter?
Nocturn - no tray icon
Chirp - doesn't work, don't know why
My last hope: https://github.com/dogancelik/...9 -
Make a difference integration with twitter. Linking your twitter and when you post a dm to @devrant to post in here.1
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Sooo, this DDoS I read about, it's hitting quite a few mayor sites isn't it? From what I've noticed at least Twitter, GitHub, Dyn. Any other mayor ones?3
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Twitter now allows to add up to 4 images and format count them in symbols count. I have no idea what to do with such a great power.
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Twitter api restricts me to fetch only 3202 tweets and if I had to fetch the retweeters count is limited to 100 .. is there any open source which will help me get through this problem because the data being collected is not sufficient for analysis
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How do you import twitter sdk on android studio without fabric. It gives me error every time. I followed the official documentation of twitter nut couldn't resolve it
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Finally! Here it is my bot! :D
http://bit.ly/jo-twitter-bot
Please guys, check it out and give me all your recommendations, I will read all of them :) -
Looking for some twitters to follow just made a new one. Specifically looking for influential accounts on the web dev stage1
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Having problems with connecting nodejs twitter bot to cloudinary api to fetch images and directly posting them to twitter.
Any help?3
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