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Thinking of Removing Twitter Support from CMX
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Thinking of Removing Twitter Support from CMX
The Twitter support in CMX is now ancient and because of the changes to Twitter authentication since this code was written it can only be used a very few people who transitioned from Cumulus 1. (Can they even still use it?)
As the library it uses and some dependencies are now getting flagged as deprecated and no longer supported, I propose to remove all Twitter support from CMX in the near future.
As it is now, Twitter can still be used by employing a third party app and Twitter text file.
Over to you for your thoughts....
As the library it uses and some dependencies are now getting flagged as deprecated and no longer supported, I propose to remove all Twitter support from CMX in the near future.
As it is now, Twitter can still be used by employing a third party app and Twitter text file.
Over to you for your thoughts....
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Re: Thinking of Removing Twitter Support from CMX
The major problem is the tweet rate limitation that is shared between all users of MX. So if only a few people use it then it will work okay. But that is impossible to do, so rip it out
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Re: Thinking of Removing Twitter Support from CMX
Twitter in my Cumulus 1 hasn't worked for years. Nor has it worked with CumulusMX.The Twitter support in CMX is now ancient and because of the changes to Twitter authentication since this code was written it can only be used a very few people who transitioned from Cumulus 1. (Can they even still use it?)
I have gone with using Weathercloud which is one of the third-party services in CumulusMX and this works 100% https://twitter.com/KomokaWeather
So agree, removing Twitter from the CumulusMX settings as there is an alternative.
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Re: Thinking of Removing Twitter Support from CMX
Not a loss as far as I'm concerned.
If you aren't confused, you weren't paying attention.
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Re: Thinking of Removing Twitter Support from CMX
No loss to me .
Must admit I gave up on Twitter many years ago....
Must admit I gave up on Twitter many years ago....
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Re: Thinking of Removing Twitter Support from CMX
Fine with me.
In general I see the hourly weather reports on twitter as timeline pollution so i am not for it anyway.
In general I see the hourly weather reports on twitter as timeline pollution so i am not for it anyway.
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Re: Thinking of Removing Twitter Support from CMX
Twitter? what is that?
Call me an old luddite but I have never used it nor wished to.
For me it is surplus to requirements and should be binned.
Call me an old luddite but I have never used it nor wished to.
For me it is surplus to requirements and should be binned.
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Re: Thinking of Removing Twitter Support from CMX
Never used it!
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Re: Thinking of Removing Twitter Support from CMX
Is there anybody who does use it and can't do without may be a better question
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Re: Thinking of Removing Twitter Support from CMX
Well, I did hope those people (if there are any) would chip in
Given the ancient code it uses, it's history unless I can be persuaded otherwise.
Given the ancient code it uses, it's history unless I can be persuaded otherwise.
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Re: Thinking of Removing Twitter Support from CMX
I think there are few expecting otherwise
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Re: Thinking of Removing Twitter Support from CMX
I used it initially but when the authentication issues started happening I started doing mine manually triggered off a created tweet.txt file from a python script I cobbled together to make work. One of the posts in here has instructions on how to do that (mainly for Linux/Pi based setups; I would imagine since it's Python it *should* work on a Windows implementation). It's pretty basic and has the instructions on how to get it set up if you are interested in doing it.
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Re: Thinking of Removing Twitter Support from CMX
I guess the third-party sites like weathercloud will no longer publish weather data to Twitter from the 9th of February, since the free API access will stop?!
Better off shutting down Twitter imo.
Better off shutting down Twitter imo.
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Re: Thinking of Removing Twitter Support from CMX
I agree there's no point in fixing what will not work soon anyway if this charging for the API comes to fruition. Ken True has already said he will retire his scripts if the free API goes away.
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