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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by anigbrowl on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:01AM (#34624487)
They already have an enterprise tier for people who want to build commercial stuff on top of Twitter, and they already monetize their datasets and have done for years. How do you expect to sign up students/new developers if they have to pay before they figure out how to use the API?
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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by asdadsdad on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:22AM (#34624636)
Well they mentioned "basic tier API", so I guess let's wait for the pricing and capabilities, no? My main criticism is they're not being assholes just for charging for an API access to their data.
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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by BulgarianIdiot on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:56AM (#34624927)
You can't "wait for pricing and capabilities" as they're cutting access literally one week from now.

No attempt at making this seem like reasonable behavior and communication with developers can succeed here.

And by the way if you expect reasonable cost, you're in for a surprise. Twitter is DESPERATE for cash.

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