@jerome I designed bird.makeup from the beginning to rely on endpoints that would break major use-cases of their product like yours if they ever remove them.

Turns out Elon is perfectly willing to break them, which completely blows my mind

Having said that, with the new restrictions, I can make bird.makeup work again but with severe limitations: only posts with lots of likes will be forwarded.

Is that worth doing?

I have also been prototyping bird.makeup for Instagram, which will be called kilogram.makeup.

Should I focus my energy on that instead?

@vincent I’ve been using bird.makeup primarily to follow accounts commenting on US politics, and for regional accounts. Some of these accounts came over to Mastodon briefly, but retreated back to twitter. Some never made the move here.

You briefly had a post saying that only the most popular posts might be able to be retrieved from now on. I bet the accounts I follow won’t qualify. Assuming “influencers” have opened threads accounts, is that why you ask about prioritizing FB/IG?

@vincent Thanks to your work I was able to close my Twitter account. I think doing it via Instagram will overcome a good part of the problem that Twitter has just brought. Thanks a lot mate!

@vincent I'm loving the conflicting poll responses so far. "Fixing bird isn't worth it! But you should do it!"

@LukeJohnson@fediscience.org @vincent@social.librem.one I personally voted no and work on kilogram

I'd rather suffer than have stuff forwarded being only based on the top 100 liked posts on that account

@vincent I'd say I'm a mild yes to the first - sure it's not ideal but still much better than nothing 👍

@LukeJohnson@fediscience.org @vincent@social.librem.one

I think it's that it's not worth it if it's based on posts with tons of like. However, if it can be fixed so that it still imports it chronologically, then "fix bird first". That's how I interpret the conflicting polling answers.

I swear Twitter is doing this on purpose to kill off scraping bots.

@LukeJohnson @vincent I did not see the caveat beforeI voted 🤷🏼‍♂️

@LukeJohnson @vincent personnaly, I saw the second pool before the first one

@vincent

Fixing the bird only encourages folks to keep posting there, now more than ever seeking the outrage juice that gets them reach.

IG on the other hand, in my use of it, is local focus, it's how I keep in with the in-crowd of local venues, events and artists, most of whom tell me they've never heard of the Fediverse and are quite happy to stay put.

Even busking, when given a handle, folks will assume IG. While I'd love if IG folks could follow me, the converse would still be useful.

@vincent A lot of accounts I follow on Twitter are also on Instagram. So I think Instagram would be more interesting, at least while Threads is still off the fediverse.

More accounts are currently moving to Bluesky.

The other ones... well, it's a shame. But apart from being able to search for a single post in bird.makeup and reshare it here (like copy/pasting a Twitter's post URL), I'm not sure it will still be useful.

@vincent That's a bummer! Can't even figure out which option in the poll I'd pick.

@vincent what is "a lot of likes" ?

if my friend tweets somthing and have 4 likes, that's a lot of like fot hem.

if a newspapper tweet something and have 89 likes it may be a small amount

At this point I'm think most of my mutuals (even newspapper accounts) have moved to mastodon so maybe it's not worth the work ?

@vincent

What about using burner accounts to login?

@vincent @jerome vincent, I rely on bird.makeup to get info from my favorites on X . I haven’t seen them for days.
Does that mean it’s been permanently wounded?

@vincent there must be a way to use my own twitter account for the scraping/api calls. i would like to have that option as i selfhost my bird makeup instance

@vincent @jerome my main use is weather and yeah. Those agencies need to get off #twitter or at least crosspost to more accessible sites.

@vincent @jerome

he seems to have totalitarian ambitions