“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API”

Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by dragonwriter on Thursday February 02, 2023 @01:39PM (#34631143)

> From a business perspective, you don't want to alienate developers who work to build your ecosystem.

Musk is trying to monetize every last aspect of current Twitter possible while cutting costs to stave off bankruptcy that his acquisition made imminent long enough to pivot Twitter into a completely different business model centering on being a payment intermediary, apparently to relitigate his firing twice from X.com before it became PayPal.

He doesn't care about the ecosystem, because its an ecosystem for a completely different busoness than the one he wants Twitter to be. He cares that use of Twitter outside of the 1st party frontends bypasses monetization, so he wants it monetized or gone.

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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by notahacker on Friday February 03, 2023 @08:45AM (#34640963)

This is true, but I suspect he greatly underestimates how useful the ecosystem is to actually making Twitter relevant enough for a critical mass of people to want to use the first party frontends.

Which is odd, because Elon is someone that definitely will remember AOL, MSN messenger and MySpace being things...

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