twitter also turned off their api for anyone who hadn’t paid them, but didn’t realize their own apps and website use the same api. So the whole site stopped working for like an hour.

:my-hero: .

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    why would a raised character limit break the website? I only did a little programming in my time, but aren't characters and strings really basic data types that take up astoundingly small amounts of memory? Is twitter's web-ui that shitty that changing the character limit breaks the site?

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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      2 years ago

      imagine you have a messenger pigeon, and try to make it carry a novel