I noticed that some people on nostr still use twatter because it has the largest network effects. A lot of users are still on it and news usually breaks there first. Since pleb replies get buried anyway, why hasn’t anyone found a way to just stream twatter posts to nostr? There would be no reason for anyone to keep using it after that.
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Wouldn't they need to pay for the API to do that? Musk raised the price on that to be prohibitively expensive.
Idk how it works but I figured a bot could just scan for posts and then repost to nostr. Everything is public on twatter 🤷♂️
I think you need the API to get the information in a format that is easily read by code. Scraping posts from the website interface is much more difficult and resource intensive. Also if twatter detects an IP address that is making too many requests they will probably block it.
That makes sense thanks for explaining that