So long, Twitter API, and thanks for all the fish | snarfed.org
While you were occupied with the substack ban/unban, everyone’s least favourite billionaire is trying to make twitter profitable by 🥁 🥁 🥁 killing hobbyist projects like this.
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The Radical Right Research Robot is on Mastodon
The Radical Right Research Bot is now also on Mastodon. Click here to find it.
Bots now fully able to replace the remaining human users on Twitter
I’m putting this here for your consideration. In my humble opinion, it is indistinguishable from the original. Probably it is time for us to go back to doing actual science stuff and things.
Automated niche tweets are a thing now
I asked an AI how Twitter relates to the Tannhauser Gate. This is what they told me.
Pinging Mastodon instances | Sociology, Statistics and Software
This small experiment is quite interesting, because it reveals a tiny bit of Mastodon’s network topology. I remember that I saw one of Brendon’s test posts.
The IndieWeb for Everyone | Max Böck
This is an interesting article on everyone’s favourite topic, written from a very specific perspective
Is there a future for the academic social capital held on twitter? | Impact of Social Sciences
This, by Mark Carrigan, makes many good points re The Developments at Twitter and what they mean for academics, academics institutions, and the wider society
Illegal AfD donations, Hobbes, #rstats, and social-media wars: 5 links I liked
More on the AfD’s donation scandal(s): media report that the ultimate source of the illicit donations to Alice Weidel is a German billionaire dynasty. The family also donated to the Swiss SVP. You will not be surprised to hear that they have pan-European global interests, moved to Switzerland, became dual nationals, and divide their time…
Wakelet as a tool for archiving online debates on (academic) events
Wakelet – what is it, and why should academics care to “curate” tweets about events? Bear with me for a second. The sad state of curating and social story telling Until about about a year ago, there was a storify.com. Their business idea was that people would “curate” tweets, facebook posts and other stuff found…
Brexit, Italy, twitter bots, Germany, blogs: five links I liked
From the Monkey Cage: Italy just voted for two very different kinds of populism The botrnot package for the R language: Which world leaders are actually bots? (Use your own judgment) Science community blogs: recognising value and measuring reach Germany being Germany (or Bavaria?): German minister under fire for no women in leadership team 11…