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Tim Berners-Lee’s 2007 essay envisioned a web where relationships transcend documents, a vision now threatened as X’s closed APIs force tools like Nitter to rely on fragile page-scraping and face cease-and-desist letters. The article argues that proprietary APIs limit functionality, create rate-limit bottlenecks, and prevent cross-service queries, urging a shift toward open protocols such as ATProto and ActivityPub for a truly interoperable social web.