Wednesday, June 12, 2013
RIP Stupid Twitter Trick
One month shy of six years.
That's how long my Stupid Twitter Trick™ has been running.
Then, my Stupid Twitter Trick™ received the following from Twitter:
HTTP/1.0 410 Gone
content-length: 167
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:57:00 UTC
server: tfe
set-cookie: guest_id=v1%3A137102022081399817; Domain=.twitter.com; Path=/; Expires=Fri, 12-Jun-2015 06:57:00 UTC
strict-transport-security: max-age=631138519
{"errors": [{"message": "The Twitter REST API v1 will soon stop functioning. Please migrate to API v1.1. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/overview.", "code": 68}]}
Sigh.
It isn't like this is the first time Twitter broke things and I was all set to fix it when I suddenly realized—six years! I've been pushing the same quotes file for six years! I've repeated all the quotes π times (no, seriously—7,743 tweets, 2,464 quotes, means each quote was repeated π times).
So, I've decided to put Silicon Wisdom on hiatus, until I figure out what stupid Twitter thing I want to do next.
It was a cheap joke 31 years ago …
As Bunny and I were watching “Airplane II: The Sequel,” I remarked that I couldn't figure out if I was dismayed or thrilled at just how topical the jokes were in a 31 year old film. Was it the Middle Eastern terrorists wandering around the airport, the “naked full-body scanners” or the priest reading “Altar Boy” magazine (all within the first twenty minutes)?
I just don't know …
