I've been using this https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape and with 5 threads and no vpn, just my laptop, have been getting about 1 million tweets a day (vs 1000 before being rate limited on the api). Lots of fun

Headlines one week from now: "Twitter announces they will be discontinuing the web interface"

I'm holding out for 'Wanna tweet? That will be $1'

Incidentally they started sending out emails yesterday offering gold organization checkmarks for $1000/month + $50 per public-facing seat. I'm not sure how many businesses will want this, but I bet a lot of political nonprofits and media outlets will leap at the opportunity to boost their visibility (more boosting available for more $, kinda like promoted tweets).

Aside: can someone explain to me how IPFS, in this specific case, is any better than a typical 3rd party service storing the data?

The linked announcement says they use a pinning service “web3.storage”. Web3.storage says it stores data on FileCoin. Neither website tells me how and where the actual data is stored, except “IPFS”.

From reading the IPFS docs, a pinning service is akin to a node that has a copy of the files and is always online. If your decentralized network relies on a central node(s), how is this decentralized?