Is there a compelling reason for the Twitter API to support fav creation? I guess it's useful for something things like HootSuite so you can <like> in a management context, but damn — auto-liking is such a massive manipulation vector I'd be okay if it wasn't API accessible.
They really don't want clients though. They even used to be loudly explicit about it, "Developers ask us if they should build client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience," he wrote. "The answer is no."https://mashable.com/2011/03/11/twitter-api-clients/ …
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I remember twitter before the client apocalypse, hence my comment about twitter changing api policy =) But there could be use cases where you want to maintain feature parity, like if you created a tweet recommender tool or some kinda vis
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Yea. I think I'm sympathetic to that, too. But, at this point, fake interactions dominate via likes so I'd say nuke it or put severe constraints on it. (Gonna write the abuse pattern as the next newsletter I think.)
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