Twitter upset many people earlier this month when it announced plans to stop free access to its API. The company originally set a February 9 deadline for the company to implement the rule, but he later pushed it back to February 13. Now the social network is again postponing the closure of its free API. At a company owned by Elon Musk.
A Twitter developer account said late Monday that the company would delay the launch of its new API platform by “a few more days.” The company claims it has “huge enthusiasm” for upcoming platform changes.
In recent weeks, the developer community has expressed concern Lack of transparency and information from social media companiesThe company responded in part by briefly stating: Developer forum website behind login Last week without any explanation. The relaunched site is inundated with questions from developers trying to clarify pricing for the new API.
The delay also jeopardizes plans by developers and startups to build tools around the Twitter API. Because future spending and budget allocation on the platform is not clear.
Twitter said last week that it would price the basic tier of its “low-level usage” API at $100, but didn’t disclose how much usage is included in the “low-level” bracket. The company also said it will offer a free write-only API suitable for posting 1,500 tweets per month. This is in keeping with Elon Musk’s promise to provide a lightweight API for “great” content-serving bots.
tons of scholar and researcher I’m also concerned about having to spend money to access Twitter data that was previously freely available in the Academic Research tier of the Twitter v2 API.
