Twitter Will Start Charging For Access To Twitter API February 9.

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Wow. Dick move.

They should still have a free version, and also have a paid version.

Like if one little guy wants to schedule a post per day for his twitter account or post once or twice per day from their RSS feed, they should be able to od it for free.

But if someone runs a business or something and uses the API extensively, charge them, if you must.

But yeah, freedom my ass. Just fuck the little guy, that right Elon?

This is the worst thing Elon has done in a long time if it becomes fully paid with no free (limited) option.
 
GreenFog said:
The API won't change, so no rebinding will have to be done.
If it's paid but no rate/cap limitation then it's fine, but I feel like the free tier is gonna stay the same except for the fees, which would be horrendous.
And everyone's in the dark regarding the pricing, $100 would way too much for most.
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The API not changing is a saving grace, I suppose. But yeah, I haven't really thought about their pricing. $8 for a blue check is whatever but for the ability to keep using the API, hopefully 'ol Elon doesn't lose the plot on that one. Then again, this might be his jury-rigged solution to address the bot situation (won't remove all of them but it does bump up the price of admission) while earning a quick buck on the side.
 
imccafey said:
That does mess up the works a great deal. On a side note, if y'all have any accounts on any platform and use Twitter to login, you're gonna wanna rebind those account on something else. I feel like they might rework how they do free APIs instead of removing it outright. But damn, paid APIs on Twitter. There's a lot to say about that, huh. I can't imagine a lot of people are happy about that change. Someone's trying to recoup their losses.
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Tiktok already went thru this with them, taking the Twitter option out on what they did before Elon took over. Clubhouse is going to be the one that's messed up since most of the users over there are there from direct connect via Twitter.

ScreamingMidget said:
Buffer now says their platform will still work.

There's nothing wrong with scheduled content. Newspapers need it to auto-publish their content news. It makes perfect sense if you're giving information, news or something else interesting.
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It might work, but I'm not going to put it past Elon to take away the ability to use schedulers in favor of charging for his new and unimproved Twitter one. Just going on his behaviors these last 3 months.

seomaster5 said:
Elon has to recover his investment. Do not be surprised if he starts charging $1 to make a tweet.
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I actually said that was going to be the next step next time he updates "Twitter Blue".

imccafey said:
The API not changing is a saving grace, I suppose. But yeah, I haven't really thought about their pricing. $8 for a blue check is whatever but for the ability to keep using the API, hopefully 'ol Elon doesn't lose the plot on that one. Then again, this might be his jury-rigged solution to address the bot situation (won't remove all of them but it does bump up the price of admission) while earning a quick buck on the side.
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He already went up on the Twitter Blue. He's working his way to 20 bucks. This is a separate charge from that. From what I've seen on Twitter there will be no free version to stop 3rd parties from developing without his sayso, at least that's what the guys that run one of the shadowban tools was saying.
 
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if they charge it will they removel limitation? like we can spam as much we like lol
 
Getting dev access was pain itself, i was trying to build a daily quotes poster bot, they asked so many info i finally gave up requesting access.
 
He says he's trying to cut down on advertisers and so he's passing this on to the user.
You pass it on to the user and fewer users will use it.
If fewer people use it to tweet to their friends or run a small business, there's no point in them coming on.
Users drop.
Advertisers drop even more.
It dies.
 
Twitter are becoming a paid Platforn.

The company has been losing serious money 50% since last year.

So there allowing features as payment like:

A blue badge but it $8 a month.

Api subscription as you said will cost monthly.

And eventuly twitter it self will be a full paid system.

If your earning money from a socail
Application as a developer, and your application works why would you moan about it using twitter api.

It makes perfect sense if you owned twitter to save the business or get a huge extra income.

This will be normal with all socail websites eventually just way life going online.

Medium website done it years ago.

I understand it your not profiting from a twitter application your offering to public it going to cost but that of 2023 life

Sorry but the way life is today very expensive to live as we all no, Internet it self heading towards subscriptions.

Free going to be Imposable for many huge globel websites

Marketing only going to be for those that got a monthly disposable income to survive.

I suspected this years ago and it nearly here.

Facebook
Youtube
Google
Bing

And many others will follow.
 
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I don't think it will close or get sold I Relly think it part of the new ways socail are going as paid services.
 
ScreamingMidget said:
He says he's trying to cut down on advertisers and so he's passing this on to the user.
You pass it on to the user and fewer users will use it.
If fewer people use it to tweet to their friends or run a small business, there's no point in them coming on.
Users drop.
Advertisers drop even more.
It dies.
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Its not our fault he paid 40 billion for this,
 
Elvlin said:
if they charge it will they removel limitation? like we can spam as much we like lol
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Definitely not Elvlin. If anything that will get you suspended quicker, lol.

randomstrings said:
Getting dev access was pain itself, i was trying to build a daily quotes poster bot, they asked so many info i finally gave up requesting access.
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A lot of people even on the old regime have the same sentiments. It's going to be damn near impossible without a high monetary value IMHO just from how Elon's doing things moving onward.

ScreamingMidget said:
He says he's trying to cut down on advertisers and so he's passing this on to the user.
You pass it on to the user and fewer users will use it.
If fewer people use it to tweet to their friends or run a small business, there's no point in them coming on.
Users drop.
Advertisers drop even more.
It dies.
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I think @ScreamingMidget the issue here is that he thinks Elon can usher in a new era and make people pay for social media while making it an exclusive platform (see him blocking other social media links which is really quite petty), and the reality is people esp. now with eggs being 9-11 bucks are just not going to pay for it. He's pushing people to crap platforms like Mastadon. Or he's getting them primed for BlueSky, which will probably irritate and alienate people further with this new "Cloud service social media for the 21st century" crap Jack's on.

paisawaisa said:
It will close soon. Tesla to follow.
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If he doesn't quit trying to fix what ain't broke.
 
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redarrow said:
Twitter are becoming a paid Platforn.

The company has been losing serious money 50% since last year.
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Not entirely true. The company was losing a shit ton of money before Elon took over. He just doesn't get it, making it a completely paid platform will not work out well in the long term. He's killing it and it's turning into MySpace.

redarrow said:
So there allowing features as payment like:

A blue badge but it $8 a month.

Api subscription as you said will cost monthly.

And eventuly twitter it self will be a full paid system.

If your earning money from a socail
Application as a developer, and your application works why would you moan about it using twitter api.

It makes perfect sense if you owned twitter to save the business or get a huge extra income.
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Not entirely true. He's since went up on the cost of Twitter Blue which is now for some 11-15 depending on their platform. Now he's tiering API access. Not everybody using the API makes money. Some develop things for free, like the guys that developed access to figure out shadowbanning. So this isn't just about money. This makes no sense since most of the people that use tools are using free ones and he's cutting the devs out by tiering their access. This isn't exactly the greatest economy for that.

redarrow said:
It makes perfect sense if you owned twitter to save the business or get a huge extra income.

This will be normal with all socail websites eventually just way life going online.

Medium website done it years ago.

I understand it your not profiting from a twitter application your offering to public it going to cost but that of 2023 life
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No it doesn't. Medium did this and LOST HUGE to people like Substack. This will never be the norm. The US economy is in shambles - people literally will gravitate to things like mastadon before they shill out money for sites.


redarrow said:
Sorry but the way life is today very expensive to live as we all no, Internet it self heading towards subscriptions.

Free going to be Imposable for many huge globel websites

Marketing only going to be for those that got a monthly disposable income to survive.

I suspected this years ago and it nearly here.

Facebook
Youtube
Google
Bing

And many others will follow.
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You are MISTAKEN. The US govt as we speak IS TRYING TO BAN TIKTOK FROM THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. Think on that. Then ask yourself are people going to pay and not know whether or not they can have access. We're not talking about us. We're talking about normies that aren't into all this tech and black hat shit. They are not.

Newspapers are circling the drain going bankrupt right now because they went subscription. Guess what? PEOPLE STOPPED READING NEWS. It's just that simple in America. Guess what? Major companies MARKET VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. They no longer pay for it. You think after 20 yrs they are going back to bleeding money out in a country whose consumer base literally is living paycheck to paycheck and has over 260 million homeless?

I don't think so. Elon's being told by somebody to kill Twitter, and this is going to coincide with TikTok being banned. That will leave crappy FB, and most of us with sense don't bother with Meta.
 
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