Friday, 26 February 2016

F*ckin' Social Media

I look after a couple websites and recently I converted one of them to a Wordpress site, one of the features on said site is a Twitter plugin that displays the site owner's Twitter feed. However I have had to go off on a merry web dance in order to get the feed working due to Twitter's fucking stupid, almost bordering on extortion API key generation procedure!

I don't have a Twitter account and I was simply not interesting in having one but I've had to create one AND add my mobile phone number to it in order to get the 'application' API tokens so the plugin can validate and 'callback' to Twitter.

Fuck you Twitter.

and while I'm at it, fuck you too Facebook.