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Elon Musk Says Actually ‘Good’ Bots Can Stay on Twitter for Free
In a not-so-surprising, sudden reversal, Elon Musk walked back on plans to completely end free access to Twitter’s application programming interface (API) over the weekend. The billionaire indicated that limited, cost-free API access would remain for “good” bots on the site, in a Saturday night tweet.
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No, Reddit Didn’t Kill 2 Popular Video-Downloader Bots
Unlike many other platforms, Reddit’s earned a reputation for embracing the countless weird and wacky bots its users have created to run wild on the platform. And while some of these bots have gone to that great Github in the sky, reports that two beloved video-downloader bots were getting the axe this week apparently jumped…
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What Was Your Most Embarrassing Username?
It’s a fact of life nowadays: you start coming up with usernames before you are mature enough to come up with usernames that aren’t completely stupid and totally embarassing years down the line. I did it. You did it. It’s both something to be ashamed of, but nothing to be ashamed of being ashamed of.…
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AIM Is (Unofficially) Dead
For anyone inside the generation for which AOL was synonymous with the internet, and AIM was prerequisite to any social life at all, some pretty sad news: AOL just sacked its IM team. The old king of chat is paraplegic.