>former twitter employees create a site literally called twitter2
>incremental user ids
Jun 22, 2023, 7:36 PM
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it leaks user count, it leaks who joined before/after you and most importantly it is super easy to scrape
how do i fix that? every program with a user i have ever written uses incremental (and twitter’s post does that i think)
also, i would have a user count endpoint anyway
i understand why the second thing is bad although it could become meta
i definitely understand why the last is bad so that’s why i’m asking how to fix it (though that’s how we got all the scratch projects so there are some positives)
its not a bug its a feature:tm:
so you can view and scrape all the users and prove theyre not bots yourself /j