Re:Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone
by theFletch on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:05PM
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Sorry, I guess I thought Musk had already removed legacy checks. The whole thing seems a little silly. King obviously doesn't need Twitter, but I'm sure he receives more value out Twitter than $8/mo even so (or whatever they're charging now).
Re:Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone
by sundaeofshock on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:34PM
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Twitter sells user eyeballs to advertisers. The user’s are there to look at posts from people like King.
I’m sure pre-Musk Twitter got far more than $8/mo out of King posting on the site.
Re:Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone
by darkarmani on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:26PM
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I'm sure Twitter gets more value out of King than $8/month.
Re:Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone
by codetrotter on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:29PM
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Seems like and interesting research problem. Too bad the researchers won’t be able to afford the API access cost to research things like this ;)
Re:Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone
by theFletch on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:45PM
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I'm sure they do, but wasn't that also a part of Twitter Blue, a revenue share, or have they not followed through with that either?
Re:Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone
by jackson1442 on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:27PM
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But accounts like his are what _drives_ people to Twitter. I already left months ago, but I'd definitely be leaving if the company that profits off of me wants to charge me for the privilege.
If you click on his checkmark it tells you that he's a legacy verified account and does NOT pay for Twitter Blue.