Ad revenue must be down bad.
Twitter Dev @TwitterDev
Feb 2
Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵
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Feb 2, 2023 · 4:13 PM UTC

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Replying to @ericnakagawa
my guess is it’s more about raising the friction to make bots
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My guess is it might also have something to do with AI companies data mining Twitter for free and potentially competing. But the change is too sudden, especially for small/solo devs that have been just experimenting and making little/cool/useful things in Twitter for years.
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Replying to @ericnakagawa
Mr. Tweet is going to be the end of Twitter.
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You may as well get lost then...🤦🏻‍♀️😂
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This move will bring it even lower as advertisers won't have access to basic analytics tools to measure their reach on the platform. This move kills off external analytics and internal ones are broken
Alex Volkov - targum.video @altryne
Feb 2
Twitter API pricing will affect so so much of the ecosystem. One tiny example, twitter internal analytics are broken: Another, will oauth be... part of the pricing? Did they just doom all "sign in with twitter" across the web? 🤔
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Advertisers will *absolutely* pay for this.
Replying to @ericnakagawa
It is API abuse by bots that triggered this new policy not a need for revenue. You make it just expensive enough to where scammers can't easily afford it. Sound like legit business to me.
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Replying to @ericnakagawa
bot control
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Replying to @ericnakagawa
Will this stop all these bots though? I bet it would thwart a huge number of them that are automated through the free API.
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