Discussion

• @twitterdev @twitterdev on x

  Today we are launching our new Twitter API access tiers! We're excited to share more details about our self-serve access. 🧵

• @twitterdev @twitterdev on x

  Over the next 30 days, we will deprecate current access tiers such as Standard (v1.1), Essential (v2), Elevated (v2), and Premium so we recommend that you migrate to the new tiers as soon as possible for a smooth transition.

• @twitterdev @twitterdev on x

  We are also launching a new Basic (v2) access for hobbyists with 10,000 GET/month and 50,000 POST/month, 2 app IDs, and Login with Twitter for $100/month. Subscribe now: https://developer.twitter.com/ ...

• @carljackmiller Carl Miller on x

  No Researcher in the world should be talking about online harms, presenting social media research or talking about how it's changing society without also raising the threat of data access. Because it won't be researchers who fix this one, but everyone else https://twitter.com/...

• @craigsilverman Craig Silverman on x

  Here's the thread from Twitter announcing the new API's details. https://twitter.com/...

• @galwaygrrl Maura Conway on x

  This is an absolute travesty from a researcher perspective. Online hate and extremism research, also misinfo and disinfo, will be particularly badly affected, to the detriment of policymakers and publics. Potentially even democracy itself. https://twitter.com/...

• @piccalilli_ Andy Bell on x

  Bet you £420.69 that Elon has to back down and come up with different tiers. Absolute clown shit https://twitter.com/...

• @mattbinder Matt Binder on x

  here it is, the death of every little niche Twitter app you like: https://twitter.com/...

• @linuz90 Fabrizio Rinaldi on x

  I'm happy to report that @typefully will keep running and growing💪 But honestly it's a sad day for the developer community. Typefully started as a weekend side project. It wouldn't exist with this new pricing. https://twitter.com/...

• @palettefm_bot @palettefm_bot on x

  twitter just released their new API: - the post limit is down from 2400 to 97 per day (I post 1000-2000 per day) - to keep the same access it reportedly costs $42000 per month tldr, most interactive twitter bots will stop on April 29th unless they change it 🪦😭 https://twitter.com…

• @dylanreeve Dylan Reeve on x

  A “hobbyist” API for $100/mth... LOL! https://twitter.com/...

• @yongfook Jon Yongfook on x

  Twitter API pricing now public. Free $0 / mo Basic $100 / mo Enterprise $42,000 / mo is dis price anchoring 🤔 https://techcrunch.com/...

• @transitive_bs Travis Fischer on x

  This is is going to destroy Twitter's developer ecosystem in the short/medium-term. $100 / month for 50k POSTs sounds reasonable-ish, until you realize it's limited to 3k tweets per user / month and most helpful bots have a single user... https://twitter.com/...

• @carljackmiller Carl Miller on x

  Care about stopping hate speech? Or stemming information warfare? Countering extremism? Electoral integrity? This single move is going to remove a vast chunk of social media research that informs all of that. There should be questions in Parliament about this. https://twitter.com…

• @fake_api @fake_api on x

  This is an amazing and innovative new way to ensure no one builds anything on the platform and we can continue to monetize everything, everywhere, always. Gotta pay off a $44 billion purchase, after all! https://twitter.com/...

• @slicedlime @slicedlime on x

  Haha, oh wow. So spamming is free, but want to read more than 2 tweets per hour pay ridiculous amounts? Yeah that ain't happening. I'm sure this will have absolutely *stellar* results for the platform. https://twitter.com/...

• @igorbrigadir @igorbrigadir on x

  The new @TwitterAPI Basic Access for $100 per month got added in to the Dev Portal, and it's absolutely miserly. 10,000 Tweet Monthly cap on Search & Stream That was previously 2,000,000. Endpoints that had hundreds of calls per 15 minutes now have barely dozens. It's useless.

• @chrismessina Chris Messina on x

  $210,000/mo 💸 https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @karissabe Karissa Bell on x

  Twitter's new API tiers are out but not a lot of details for researchers https://twitter.com/...

• @chrismessina Chris Messina on x

  Just gunna revive this one https://twitter.com/...

• @marckohlbrugge @marckohlbrugge on x

  Elon continues to kill off third-party apps. First by seeding doubt, scaring away developers from building any new apps. Second, by pulling the plug on popular clients. Now, by introducing extremely high pricing making the majority of (big) apps economical unviable. https://twitt…

• @tibo_maker Tibo on x

  1) This is the death of Twitter indie products 2) Big Enterprise customers will be scared by the instability I suspect this will not go through. https://twitter.com/...

• @simonw Simon Willison on x

  @IgorBrigadir @TwitterAPI Would be fascinating to hear from someone who genuinely has a project for which that set of limits at that price point makes sense

• @kuba_suder @kuba_suder on x

  At least there's a way to keep the fun bots alive, but not much more than that... and none of the bots that e.g. respond to mentions or require any other read access 😕 https://twitter.com/...

• @nvahnav @nvahnav on x

  Most, if not all, GAW pickers here use the Standard v1.1 API with Elevated v2 access, and the new Basic tier is capped at 10K Tweets per month. The only viable tier is Enterprise and reportedly starts at $42K per month. Smooth transition? More like no transition. https://twitter.…

• @acnwala Alexander C. Nwala on x

  In 30 days a huge paywall would block the Twitter API that we rely on for research https://twitter.com/... Appealing to developers to write/maintain/test read/write/search/stream/etc light-weight easy-to-use scrapers that support ALL (I wish) functionalities provided by the API