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episode 422: Third-Party Rocket


Longtime Twitter users are cast into mourning as Twitter cuts off API access for third-party clients. Many of those apps are beloved by Twitter's power users and built the site that we know and love — love? Is that the right word? — today. Then, furor online over the reveal that CNET has long been using AI to write select financial articles, and that over half those articles had factual errors. How does something like this happen? Finally, two of Rocket's favorite scamsters are making big comebacks.

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Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Membership - Relay FM Rocket | Cotton Bureau The third-party apps Twitter just killed made the site what it is today - The Verge CNET found errors in more than half of its AI-written stories - The Verge Inside CNET’s AI-powered SEO money machine - The Verge Anna "Delvey" Sorokin to star in new reality show while on house arrest - CBS News Fyre Festival founder launches new venture  The Wild World of Mobile Game Ads


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 January 27, 2023  1h14m