The tweet is about API, not AI. API is the interface that software uses to receive data from twitter. API basically sends an application a block of data instead of loading a full webpage. This makes it easier for software to interpret the data and reduces the amount of bandwidth that the site uses.
If Elon makes the API private, it's going to break all the open source twitter apps and twitter frontends like nitter. Also the supposed malicious bots will just switch to scraping, which will use more bandwidth and cost twitter more money. I think Elon just wants to break frontends like nitter.
Oh for sure, he sees things like nitter. Bots are more nebulous, but he definitely can't stand free-loading. He'd take the whole site pay-per-view but even he's not that stupid yet.
The tweet is about API, not AI. API is the interface that software uses to receive data from twitter. API basically sends an application a block of data instead of loading a full webpage. This makes it easier for software to interpret the data and reduces the amount of bandwidth that the site uses.
If Elon makes the API private, it's going to break all the open source twitter apps and twitter frontends like nitter. Also the supposed malicious bots will just switch to scraping, which will use more bandwidth and cost twitter more money. I think Elon just wants to break frontends like nitter.
Oh for sure, he sees things like nitter. Bots are more nebulous, but he definitely can't stand free-loading. He'd take the whole site pay-per-view but even he's not that stupid yet.
This is also true.
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