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

[ATuringtest]

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.

I stand corrcted

 

[RealDaddy]

Image you took the API off line for 7 days and looked at all the accounts that don't login.. Bot Killer !

But why would Twitter do that?

 

[grpland]

Gotta be a chad in these trying times.

Ok, yes you can scrape the data… But how should you sell this data still?
usually you would have to be approved for Premium/Enterprise access on Twitter to use the data ‚commercially‘, right?

 

[Ashk881]

Ok, yes you can scrape the data… But how should you sell this data still?

By transforming it into insights and data?
People use twitter api to collect data from tweets and trends. You sell *that data* and not the tweets themselves.

 

[RealDaddy]

By transforming it into insights and data?
People use twitter api to collect data from tweets and trends. You sell *that data* and not the tweets themselves.

yes, and that's what most Twitter automation tools do

 

[grpland]

By transforming it into insights and data?
People use twitter api to collect data from tweets and trends. You sell *that data* and not the tweets themselves.

In my case I’m thinking about selling access to twitter profiles. Like followerwonk where you can search for keywords in all of twitter profiles.
so the scraped data would not be aggregated, rather cleaned and prepared. Difficult topic, don’t you think?

 

[Ashk881]

In my case I’m thinking about selling access to twitter profiles. Like followerwonk where you can search for keywords in all of twitter profiles.

Twitter has limited exactly this usecase behind an enterprise api plan. They prolly know about services like FollowerWonk and are trying to limit them as much as they can so they can make a "twitter for marketers" suite in the future.

Without the api you will have to make a twitter-scale crawler that can crawl the bios and profiles of millions of users.

The crawling part would likely not be very difficult. What would be difficult would be discovering this many account handles to crawl.

 

[Mactronn]

Scraping. Not as effective or easy but it may work well for some businesses. Elon is trying to make bot activity and scraping harder in general.

Nahhh, scraping is actually very effective in quite easy. With good Python script and a lot of proxies, you can do anything.

 

[RealDaddy]

Nahhh, scraping is actually very effective in quite easy. With good Python script and a lot of proxies, you can do anything.

Would you recommend some no code scraping solution?

 

[0x01cc]

Seems like a good decision now.

Hi. Do you sell the live twitter data ?

 

[akaseo]

Hi. Do you sell the live twitter data ?

Yeah I scrape don't sell though explicitly you can make a request on hire a freelancer then I might be able to help you out.