I agree. The Twitter connector is used in a few (unofficial) tutorials, so if we remove it that will make it more difficult for those tutorials to be maintained. On the other hand, if I recall correctly, that connector uses V1 of the Twitter API, which has been deprecated, so it's really not very useful even for that purpose.
David On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 9:34 AM Martijn Visser <mart...@ververica.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I would like to discuss deprecating Flinks' Twitter connector [1]. This > was one of the first connectors that was added to Flink, which could be > used to access the tweets from Twitter. Given the evolution of Flink over > Twitter, I don't think that: > > * Users are still using this connector at all > * That the code for this connector should be in the main Flink codebase. > > Given the circumstances, I would propose to deprecate and remove this > connector. I'm looking forward to your thoughts. If you agree, please also > let me know if you think we should first deprecate it in Flink 1.15 and > remove it in a version after that, or if you think we can remove it > directly. > > Best regards, > > Martijn Visser > https://twitter.com/MartijnVisser82 > > [1] > https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-master/docs/connectors/datastream/twitter/ > >
