# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 11
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/ujf4vfq
Reaching 700M Active Users, Telegram Announces 'Premium' Tier
"Telegram became one of the top-5 downloaded apps worldwide in 2022 and now has over 700 million monthly active users," they announced this weekend. "This growth is solely from personal recommendations β Telegram has never paid to advertise its apps."
But they add significantly that "As Telegram keeps growing at rocket speed, many users have expressed th ... β Read more
@slashdot And yet it's still yet another centrlaised instant messaging platform π€¦ββοΈ When will we ever get away from this gawd awful "You need to use platform X to talk to me" bullshit?! π€¬
@slashdot And yet it's still yet another centrlaised instant messaging platform π€¦ββοΈ When will we ever get away from this gawd awful "You need to use platform X to talk to me" bullshit?! π€¬
@prologic exactly! Everyone should be using RFC 2549 for all their communication needs! π
@prologic This is what I face every day when people ask me why I do not have WhatsApp anymore. I tell them then: please send email! Or Signal, Threema, Element(matrix), IRC. So strange. And I feel old and sad the Email got degraded to a "retrieve password" service.