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Twitter breaks their own search page with API Deprecation (search.twitter.com)
9 points by rkischuk 4750 days ago
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rkischuk 4750 days ago
In case someone at Twitter actually fixes this tonight, here's a screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117450/twitter-search.pn...

Embarrassing.

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bdd 4749 days ago
Not really. Deprecation of "search.twitter.com" was announced months before. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/faq#17750
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rkischuk 4749 days ago
That documents retirement of an API. Someone visiting "search.twitter.com" in a browser wants to see a web page. It would seem sensible to redirect them to a place where they can do that.
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a_bonobo 4749 days ago
Redirects me to twitter.com/search-home
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snowwrestler 4749 days ago
I've never seen that search page URL before. As long as I can remember, it has been http://twitter.com/search (which still works).
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gojomo 4749 days ago
Not that I went there often, but I always got to search via "http://search.twitter.com"... earlier today it was returning a 404 [1], now this weird API deprecation message. I just wanted to type a query in via my browser!

Strange that they didn't even put in a redirect.

[1] reported to Twitter about 12 hours ago: https://twitter.com/gojomo/status/344515216517767168

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