Twitter Replaces Its Free API , With a Paid Tier.
The Verge reports that the announcement was made by the Twitter Development account on Feb. 1. .
The Verge reports that Twitter's Application Programming Interface (API) "allows third parties
to retrieve and analyze public Twitter data.".
This data can then help to create programmable
bots and applications that interact with the
platform, like Pikaso and Thread Reader.
The Verge reports that once Twitter's API access is no longer free, many bots and other tools will likely either need to charge a fee or shut down.
The change will also affect students and scientists who study online behavior and collect data for research papers on the platform.
Many took to Twitter to express their disappointment with the new paid tier. .
Wow....a whole week's notice. For a whole bunch of people who use your service, developers who have built products that support your service, you gave them a week's notice. This is just straight terrible leadership, @dougblackjr/Twitter.
Next week, there won't be a free Twitter API anymore. As a result, I will stop any work on non-commercial projects that use the API and will have to re-evaluate which commercial projects are still feasible, @luca/Twitter.
This change will destroy research, activism and commercial projects, @luca/Twitter