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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by majewsky on Friday February 03, 2023 @07:20AM (#34640154)
You're sounding very confident, so I'm sure you have a source for that claim.

Besides, even if 90% of the API usage is for scraping and does not impact the bottomline, it's still a smart business decision to leave the API open if the remaining 10% are for posting content that brings in views and thus ad impressions that generate more money than the API costs to run.

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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by rvnx on Friday February 03, 2023 @08:24PM (#34650301)
It's the main usage described in the "Twitter Files" (internal docs of Twitter which were openly leaked on Twitter).
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