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You are always relying on a 3rd party somewhere down the stack that's not a reason to dismiss a solution alone.

Given Twitter's track record on APIs, there is every reason to dismiss this solution.

To be fair, this is something they've acknowledged and committed to working on for future API iterations.

I can host a blog such that it only requires 2nd parties:

- My ISP

- My power company

What would you use for DNS?

edit: Also they're third party. 1st is you 2nd party is the customer (The blog audience).