Today we are launching our new Twitter API access tiers

https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1641222782594990080

by brw • 3 years ago

15 3 3 years ago

If Twitter was planning on re-releasing their API after shutting it down last month their communication has been completely incompetent.

Who would trust them enough to build a product based on an API with a record of shutting down without notice?

Honestly, I doubt tweetbot and similar apps will return.

tech234a• 3 years ago

Those apps are still banned as per III.A.c of the Twitter Developer Agreement and Policy [1]. These new limits are for the remaining users of the Twitter API (bots, social media managers, data analyzers, etc.).

[1] https://developer.twitter.com/en/developer-terms/agreement-a...

transitivebs• 3 years ago

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.

Take ChatGPTBot, for example, an OSS bot which I run that has over 100k followers. It's very simple but super helpful; mention the bot with a prompt and it responds with a response from ChatGPT. Each response uses 3 POSTS (1 image, 1 alt text, 1 tweet), and remember it's only 3k tweets per user / month.

So ChatGPTBot for $100 / month could effectively only respond to *1 tweet per hour*.

That's insane for the price and will kill all open source innovation around Twitter.

I hope this type of use case gets addressed soon, but imho the damage to trust in Twitter's developer community is already done either way.

Today we are launching our new Twitter API access tiers

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