Twitter has formally announced its revamped API levels a month and a half after new CEO Elon Musk promised a major overhaul of the system. In one thread, the company official developer account listed three tiers: free, basic, and enterprise, and provided some details about their pricing and read and write limits. It was also linked to register pagesThey offer links to get started with the first two levels and to express interest in the third.
The company says that older levels will depreciate “over the next 30 days.” Here is a brief summary of the three replacements (which can also be found on the Twitter website):
In response to the Twitter announcement, some developers said they would have to cancel their projects or pass the fees on to users. accounting analysis developer luca hammer he said he would have to close down his tool designed to help journalists and academics analyze Twitter accounts. Daniel Nguyenwhose Ktool software sends Twitter threads to be read on the Kindle, said the changes mean it will either have to stop supporting Twitter or raise prices.
Another developer, who asked to remain anonymous, called the free tier “terrible” due to the limited posting limit and the apparent inability to read simple information like tweets, likes, and followers from the platform.
However, other developers, such as the team behind Typefully tweet scheduling service they said they can afford the new prices and will therefore continue to support the platform. “But this would have totally killed us 1 year ago or when we started,” says Typefully co-founder Francesco Di Lorenzo. tweeted.
