$100/month strikes me as a “we don’t want you” price. I’m sure there’s someone out there who can justify it but it will immediately turn away a hell of a lot of people. Maybe this was the point? Reduce API users to only the most motivated people/organizations and expect that many of them will grow into the next tier?
Twitter and their V1 api was one of the reasons I fell in love with programming and automation.<p>Today "For hobbyists or prototypes" you pay $100.
A month!<p>It's sad.
The shear amount of floundering that twitter has done since Elon bought it is hilarious as a non-user. I do feel bad for the people who just like using twitter though, like every other week the checkmark means something different. I hear the trending tab is overrun with crypto spam now. Elon really knows how to shake up a company! And by shake up I mean destroy one step at a time.
Do they _want_ people to use it, or is this pricing specifically to get people to not use the API without having to actually announce they're killing it? They can let the API decay and this pricing will mean that its decline will be visible and relevant to far fewer people.
I don’t want to scrape, but at these price points, small projects where I only need basic user profile data are simply more cost effective with scraping.<p>Some very dumb decisions with their API pricing. How do you go from $0 to $100 to $5,000?
I can't be the only person who noticed the double space in the first bullet point...<p>Anyways, while I understand wanting to monetize their API instead of having it just be used by tons of people for free, the tiers here just seem like insanity. This might be one of the few instances where I'd actually be happier with a usage-based billing model. $100 for a hobbyist? I personally can't remember the last time I paid $100 on a monthly basis for any non-essential service that I was using as a hobby. Would be interested to see the amount of customers each one of these tiers was actually fielding...
Aside: Elon's got this all wrong. The checkmarks and other pricing tiers only weed out the dupes and conmen.<p>Traditionally, a list of people that are dumb enough to do really dumb things and that have disposable income is very valuable. Having a list of known rubes isn't something you share, for free, to anyone. You charge a lot of money for that list, usually.<p>But here's Elon, just giving away that list for anyone to see.
Could this actually be a good thing for the Twitter bot problem?<p>Are re-tweets/likes considered a tweet in the tweet limits?<p>I'm not a heavy Twitter user or developer just a curious bystander and definitely don't have details into the "buy retweets" ecosystem so not sure if the "buy retweets"/buy social cred were using this type of API, humans or webscraping type scripts.
Hopefully this means feedly pro can support twitter integration again. In mean time, anyway aware of working method to turn tweets from a public list into a daily email digest? A couple methods I use to depend on died with API access gone. Or any app that reads a twitter list via TTS.
This seems like a good way to create a gray market of "unofficial" Twitter "API" providers that charge $100 per month to automate Twitter with reverse engineered mobile API endpoints.
What surprises me most is that Twitter doesn't appear to have anything that allows you post ads only to Twitter Blue subscribers.<p>They are a set of users comprised almost entirely of absolute morons who believe everything they read online and also have money to spend on stupid buillshit like Twitter Blue, they are a goldmine for advertisers and this oppurtunity to bilk them of all their cash is just wasted.
Effort spent on lower tiers takes away from higher tiers that make actual amounts of money for twitter.<p>They don't want the $10/mo student because realistically that student is only going to be a drain on Twitter.<p>They want the $100/mo "amateur" who has an actual shot at growing to a $1000/mo or beyond tier. If they don't blow up they want that user to stop paying and being a net-drain on Twitter's constrained and expensive (man-hours) resources.<p>Further they want to price out some bad actors. See cheating differential in free vs. paid games.<p>Look I disagree strong with Twitter's direction and leadership - but this pricing ain't the hill to die on.