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[–] catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see, I guess at that scale API requests add up. I suppose it is a solution, and if replies don’t count, the limits are rather reasonable.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, exactly.

Also worth mentioning, the scale of Twitter also means that they have contractual obligations when it comes to uptime (for advertisers etc), so downtime could be very costly indeed.