FJFrancisco José Fernández-Medina Lópezinplanvortex.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 7 min readCharacter limits across social APIs: .length lies, and it lies both ways"👨👩👧👦".length is 11. That emoji is one character on screen, seven Unicode code points, and 25 bytes on the wire. Which of those numbers a social network measures your post against depends on th00
SSSaurav Sharmainblog.sorv.dev·5d ago · 6 min readAnti-Engagement-Farm: from GPT-4o prototype to a 42MB local classifierAt a glance Item Value Tech stack MV3 extension + FastAPI + ONNX int8 BERT Model size 42MB Inference 1.9ms raw / 17ms under scroll load RAM 209MB Detection 4.5% of timeline was bait (pre10
BFBozad from GetXAPIintwitter-api.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 10 min readSearch Tweets by Hashtag with the X API: Queries and CodeHashtag search looks like the simplest query you can write, and it is the one most people get subtly wrong. The hash is not decoration on a keyword. It selects a different matching behaviour, and if y00
BFBozad from GetXAPIintwitter-api.hashnode.dev·Sep 6 · 18 min readX (Twitter) API Object Reference: Tweet and User FieldsEvery response from the X API v2 is built from a small set of objects: the Post (still called a Tweet in most field names), the User, and the Media, Poll and Place objects that hang off them. This ref00
EMEvan Mercerinevanmercer.hashnode.dev·Aug 14 · 7 min readAfter Nitter: what's left of third-party X front-endsIf you go looking for a working Nitter instance today, you get a confusing answer. Some are gone. Some show you a bot check. A couple work perfectly well. And the flagship instance returns HTTP 200 wi00
NHNasim Hossain Rabbiinblog.nasimhossain.dev·Aug 6 · 8 min readHow Twitter Solved Distributed ID Generation"Generating an ID is easy." Is it, though? Every second, companies like Amazon, Stripe, Uber, Discord, and Netflix create millions of new records. Every order, payment, message, notification, and user60
HHelperXinhelperx.hashnode.dev·Jul 21 · 2 min readI Built 12 SaaS Products. Nobody Cared. Then I Built the Tool I Actually Needed.I’ve shipped more than one product. Same story every time: Build it. Post a few times on X(Twitter). Silence. Back to the code. “Distribution is hard.” I stopped blaming the product. It wasn’t bad. I 10
BBozadingetxapi.hashnode.dev·May 31 · 6 min readTwitter / X data in 2026: the official API, scraper ecosystems, and the third-party optionWhen you need Twitter / X data inside a production system in 2026, you have three architecturally distinct options. Each has different auth surfaces, durability characteristics, and integration costs.00
JIJargon is Easyinblog.jargoniseasy.com·May 10 · 6 min readSomeone Posted Morse Code on Twitter and Walked Away With $200,000On May 4, 2026, an attacker pulled off one of the more embarrassing incidents in the short history of autonomous AI agents. They manipulated Grok (xAI's chatbot) and Bankrbot (an automated crypto trad20
SDSylvester Dasinblog.minifyn.com·Apr 25 · 5 min readDecoding X's Adaptive Streaming: Building a Robust Video Extraction EngineThe way massive platforms deliver data at scale often captivates developers. X (formerly Twitter) stands as a prime example, having evolved its media distribution from simple static MP4 links to a sop00
