Re:Twitter API Pricing
by davidcbc on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:09PM
(#34633078)
Yes, they are adding fees to the currently free APIs, the OP is not the currently free API, it's a paid API that has been around since 2017 and has always been expensive. There has been no announcement of what the new cost structure will be because that would require Elon Musk to plan more than a few days ahead
The first thing that stood our is that the table has a duplicate "Monthly Tweet cap" entry. Not enough people to review things before release?
This seems egregiously expensive for what you get. Who's the target demographic for this service? Does it really make sense in the appropriate industry?
Re:Twitter API Pricing
by sekai on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:08PM
(#34633055)
One major reason to provide an API for a website like Twitter is to reduce the load from sloppy scraping and other actions people are going to do either way. This seems like a mistake.
Re:Twitter API Pricing
by jakear on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:16PM
(#34633175)
Anyone able to see how this has changed over time? I'm trying to look on archive.org, which claims to have snapshots going back to 2017, but the website is being super slow and throwing errors every time I try to actually view one: "Failed to fetch product data.\nUnknown error."
Total Requests PER MONTH --- PRICE PER MONTH
Up to 500 --- $149.00
Up to 1000 --- $289.00
Up to 2,500 --- $699.00
Up to 5,000 --- $1,299.00
Up to 10,000 --- $2,499.00
Surely a single small region would eat this up alone?
This is showing how much the advertising loss is squeezing all angles.
I don’t know what type of application would find it worth it to pay these kinds of ridiculous prices.
> Pricing for these elevated tiers of the Search Tweets API starts at $149/month
https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2017/i...
Quote from @TwitterDev:
"Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead"
This seems egregiously expensive for what you get. Who's the target demographic for this service? Does it really make sense in the appropriate industry?
As other said, this probably hasn't changed in a while, but I haven't confirmed.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190614191714/https://developer...