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Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by johnm212 on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:18PM (#35377625)
> maintaining a gigantic cost center that provides no revenue > these companies are not charities, they exist to make money.

From the article: > Twitter already had a $400m paid API business

If this is true, the API would be generating almost 10% of Twitter's revenue. This is a serious business unit for Twitter.

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Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by brunes on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:35PM (#35377798)
The commercial API has nothing at all to do with the third-party client API.
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Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by veeti on Thursday March 30, 2023 @05:14PM (#35378913)
What makes you think this post is about the third party client API? The commercial API tiers have also been nerfed [1] to a level where you need Enterprise to do almost anything useful.

[1] https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1641222782594990080

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Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by nwienert on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:31PM (#35381230)
Sounds like they're focusing on the profitable part.
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Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by marshray on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:38PM (#35382223)
The obvious problem is that there's nothing between $100/month and $42,000/month.

That's a huge chasm to cross. A moat, if you will.

Anyone who starts out small and grows organically is just going to get choked out, like planting an acorn in a bucket. So why even try?

Maybe that's the intent?

Sometimes I really wonder about this new CEO guy.

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Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by nexuist on Sunday April 02, 2023 @12:32PM (#35412328)
I think the enterprise plan is probably intended for established corporations that already pay out hundreds of thousands per month. As developers we're looking at it from the perspective of like "I want to build X on top of the twitter platform" but from their perspective it's more like "I want to sell access to my database to Pepsi and ESPN."
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Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by 4rb1t on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:33PM (#35377783)
makes you wonder did the commenter read the article at all?
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