Twitter's API keeps breaking, even for developers paying $42,000

[ArmpitFunk]

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-force-visitors-login-view-tweets-profiles

That's the general sentiment among developers who are still part of the once-robust third-party Twitter app ecosystem. According to developers paying Twitter, since the switch over to Elon Musk's paid API subscription plans, Twitter's API has experienced frequent issues that make it extremely difficult to run their apps.

Twitter's API issues have frustrated developers in each of Twitter's new API access tiers. Those with Basic or Pro plans — paying $100 and $5000 a month for API access, respectively — have experienced unannounced changes to their plans, numerous bugs, and often receive zero customer support. And developers shelling out for Twitter's Enterprise API Plan, which starts at $42,000 per month, are experiencing sudden outages and disappointing service considering the money they're paying.

"Everything used to work fine before we started paying half a million per year," shared one developer in a private Twitter developer group chat shared with Mashable.

Yeah...this really is the end. Bluesky is no better since no one is developing bots for it and its a bare bones Twitter, but at least there is API and others.

 

[Steptoe]

For what little Twitter stuff I've been doing, I've been scraping various Nitter installations to get what I want, but so many of those are getting rate limited or just plain don't work now. The way things are at Twitter HQ now there's probably like one guy handling all API dev stuff on a DO droplet.

 

[ArmpitFunk]

 

[OhGreat]

This has to be changed, regular users get affected by it

 

[ArmpitFunk]

This has to be changed, regular users get affected by it

All users will be rate limited, period.