That’s brilliant. Is there a way to use this trick to post a reply? It doesn’t seem like replies can be scheduled.

Apparently when they restricted the API, they didn't realize it's used by all the clients, including their official ones (and the web interface too).

Wonder when happened to the engineers who knew how the service worked inside and out?

Oh wait...

it's actually scary that it took that much to fail with elon at the helm

That wasn't the only thing scheduled to happen.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34716666

Most of the time when I like something the heart animates in, and then (ostensibly when the network fetch round-trips) it animates back out and the count goes back to where it started. My tweets also average a solid 7-13 views, so when I was getting 429s back after not posting within 24 hours, I figured the shadow ban was just getting more transparent.

Whether it is or isn't, twitter definitely feels like it's dying from my perspective. My account was created sometime in 2008-2009.