Twitter's API access will Cost $42K/month

[RealDaddy]

Seems like a good decision now.

100%

 

[twitterbots]

What a time to be alive.

 

[RealDaddy]

What a time to be alive.

your username should be crying

 

[twitterbots]

your username should be crying

Haha!!! Worst news for my username!

 

[KriscoVA]

How was Elon Musk able to come up with such an outrageous amount?

 

[RealDaddy]

How was Elon Musk able to come up with such an outrageous amount?

Who the fuck knows?

 

[RealDaddy]

Haha!!! Worst news for my username!

Yes, you should change your username

 

[MiiaHash]

They have probably set up an automatic table and scaled prices based on that table, I think prices will go down after they realize how ridiculous they are.

 

[randomstrings]

He is like milking every possible penny out of the bird, before bird gets killed

 

[Ashk881]

Gotta be a chad in these trying times.

 

[justdantz]

The man knows how to do money, to bad Twitter is delisted from Stock's

 

[RealDaddy]

They have probably set up an automatic table and scaled prices based on that table, I think prices will go down after they realize how ridiculous they are.

Elon isn't aware of a word called ridiculous

 

[Castorp]

Yeah twitter advanced search is still allows scraping data very easily even without emulating browser, I use snscrape python library.
Also twitter still gives free API access to people in academia, so if you have connection to someone in uni it can be free

 

[RealDaddy]

Yeah twitter advanced search is still allows scraping data very easily even without emulating browser, I use snscrape python library.
Also twitter still gives free API access to people in academia, so if you have connection to someone in uni it can be free

can you share some source for this info?

 

[paisawaisa]

(source)
Twitter’s API is used by vast numbers of researchers. Since 2020, there have been more than 17,500 academic papers based on the platform’s data, giving strength to the argument that Twitter owner Elon Musk has long claimed, that the platform is the “de facto town square.”

But new charges, included in documentation seen by WIRED, suggest that most organizations that have relied on API access to conduct research will now be priced out of using Twitter.

It’s the end of a long, convoluted process. On February 2, Musk announced API access would go behind a paywall in a week. (Those producing “good” content would be exempted.) A week later, he delayed the decision to February 13. Unsurprisingly, that deadline also slipped by, as Twitter suffered a catastrophic outage.

The company is now offering three levels of Enterprise Packages to its developer platform, according to a document sent by a Twitter rep to would-be academic customers in early March and passed on to WIRED.

The cheapest, Small Package, gives access to 50 million tweets for $42,000 a month. Higher tiers give researchers or businesses access to larger volumes of tweets—100 million and 200 million tweets respectively—and cost $125,000 and $210,000 a month. WIRED confirmed the figures with other existing free API users, who have received emails saying that the new pricing plans will take effect within months.

“I don’t know if there’s an academic on the planet who could afford $42,000 a month for Twitter,” says Jeremy Blackburn, assistant professor at Binghamton University in New York and a member of the iDRAMA Lab, which analyzes hate speech on social media—including on Twitter.

Rival companies like Facebook will be happy to pay this premium price.

 

[RealDaddy]

Rival companies like Facebook will be happy to pay this premium price.

But there aren't that many rival compani as big as Facebook

 

[Castorp]

can you share some source for this info?

https://developer.twitter.com/en/products/twitter-api/academic-research

 

[ATuringtest]

Its a bot killer move if you ask me
Image you took the API off line for 7 days and looked at all the accounts that don't login.. Bot Killer !

 

[TheSplinter]

You don't absolutely need the API though. It's just a convenience.

 

[Ashk881]

Its a bot killer move if you ask me
Image you took the API off line for 7 days and looked at all the accounts that don't login.. Bot Killer !

Bots don't use this api that costs $42k/mon. Thats api is for search and tweet history data.
Bot accounts impersonating people can't use the tweets api either. They can't use the api to send tweets else they wil have a big fat "BOT" tag next to their username.