This is a dupe of an earlier post: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35365932" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35365932</a><p>Announcement thread: <a href="https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1641222782594990080" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1641222782594990080</a><p>Twitter community: <a href="https://twittercommunity.com/t/announcing-new-access-tiers-for-the-twitter-api/188728" rel="nofollow">https://twittercommunity.com/t/announcing-new-access-tiers-f...</a>
As expected, this blows.<p>To have any read access at all, you need to pay $100/month - which currently is totally free with very generous rate limit. And the old $100/month tier, IIRC, has something like 2M, compared to current 10k.<p>It basically kills any hobby projects. I personally have one (that is only used by myself) to just backup tweets from some public accounts. Guess no more.<p>I expect lots of scraping tools would be developed/updated (they already exist of course, but using API is far more easier to use (manually or with things like Tweepy) and it can gives you a very detailed object for each tweet).