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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

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    1. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Sep 2020

      Like, there's no good reason why I shouldn't be able to download all the reviews that are publicly posted of a particular movie on a particular, major website. I can do it for the dominant gaming website, but not for the dominant movie website.

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    2. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Sep 2020

      And that means I can't collect any actual data about questions about the differences between gaming and movie audiences (stuff like "Why is The Last of Us Part II successful and Atomic Blonde wasn't? Why was The Last of Us Part I successful, and Hanna 2011 wasn't?"

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    3. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Sep 2020

      Or rather, I have to overcome arbitrary obstacles to do this. The '10s were a golden age for automated data research, and I just missed them. The dominance of CMSs like WordPress and the old open API for Twitter which has been completely removed made data harvesting so feasible.

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    4. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Sep 2020

      Again, if you're uncomfortable with the idea of researchers scraping data, consider that we have ethical rules, and the whole point is we're doing it in huge batches. We're not microtargeting, like the companies that actually run these sites are doing.

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    5. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Sep 2020

      I'm not actually certain that the increased difficulty of web scraping is a result of intentional anti-scraping moves, any more than WordPress being really easy to scrape was intentional. It's about how webpages are designed and served.

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    6. Cyrus @ vax adventures, or advaxtures‏ @chrysopoetics 22 Sep 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl

      I mean, Twitter now blocks the Internet Archive’s automated scraper, which is a level of adversarial that feels like it can’t not be intentional at this point

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    7. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Sep 2020
      Replying to @chrysopoetics

      I have mixed feelings about saving tweets and about the Internet Archive in general, as you know, but it's hard to argue that Twitter's motivation is out of genuine concern for privacy

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    8. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Sep 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @chrysopoetics

      Twitter is one of the most aggressively "you must use our software like a black box closed source program" sites out there, more so than even Facebook, which is probably why Twitter's open source web frameworks aren't nearly as popular as Facebook's

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    9. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Sep 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @chrysopoetics

      I mean they unfixably broke millions of dollars worth of third party app APIs, without even a compromise solution like requiring them to serve ads

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    10. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Sep 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @chrysopoetics

      Also, Twitter is only able to keep itself unscrapable and un-app-integratable by making their first party experience terrible too - this is why the pages load so fcked up. Bc the actual HTML structure IS obvious so they only serve it in tiny doses and change them often

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 22 Sep 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @chrysopoetics

      It used to be relatively trivial to just "go back in time" and read someone's whole Twitter feed from a given day in history and now it's extremely finicky and difficult

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