Twitter is ending free access to their API

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Twitter is ending free access to their API

2023年2月06日
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Starting February 9th, Twitter will no longer provide free access to the Twitter API and will begin a paid version.

In a series of tweets, a Twitter developer account said the company would stop supporting both the legacy v1.1 and the new v2 of his Twitter API. It wasn’t immediately clear how much they planned to charge for using the API.

https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922

Following recent changes that caused Twitter to shut down third-party clients, many other app developers have become cautious about how to build on top of the Twitter API. This new move may force some developers to abandon their products or pass the costs on to their customers.

Thousands of developers use the Twitter API for dozens of purposes, including tracking changes between Twitter accounts and providing alerts. These are fun side projects for people who don’t want to pay fees for something they don’t monetize themselves.

Third-party companies were often the ones submitting new products and features for Twitter, and the social network did its part by not charging them for API usage. Under Musk, Twitter is striving to control how users around the world access the platform as it scales up its attempts to monetize the service.

Twitter has made its subscription service more expensive and changed the way tweets appear on a user’s timeline to make the platform more attractive, lucrative, and an attractive destination for a shrinking advertiser base.

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