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Twitter is currently abusing UIApplication -canOpenURL in order to glean this information.

Apple apparently did throttle this in a recent iOS update. You used to be able to scan thousands of URLs quickly, but that now takes longer. Most likely due to abuse.

Countdown to Apple slapping this down in 3… 2…

Countdown to deleting the app. 3...(delete)

How foolish of them.

I recently installed the app on my iPhone and created a randomly named, radio-silent Twitter account just to follow privacy and encryption advocates. Seems ironic to remove the app for privacy reasons.

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