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.
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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tbh, that sort of abuse should be handled at the Like handler level and not at the API/UI side... since a bad actor using the API could easily just bot around any API constraint simply by running a selenium instance, load the official UI via tweet link, and click Like
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Yea, that's true. Although I suspect selenium is a lot more costly for a bot network than an event-d rest API.
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