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Twitter as of February 9th will start charging developers to use their API. https://twitter.com/twitterdev/status/1 ... 6784337922
In response to a user who conjectured that this move is more about raising the friction to making bots, Elon Musk responded, saying that this is one factor motivating the change.
“Yeah, free API is being abused badly right now by bot scammers and opinion manipulators,” Musk said. “There’s no verification process or cost, so easy to spin up 100k bots to do bad things. Just ~$100/month for API access with ID verification will clean things up greatly.”
It’s not yet clear how this will effect the Twitter ecosystem, whether it will impact bots that auto-tweet links from blogs and other useful tools. So far it is already affecting some migration tools like Movetodon that rely on the Twitter API to help users find their contacts on Mastodon. Movetodon’s creator said his app’s access was shut down today. According to Twitter, the app “has violated Twitter Rules and policies.” Fedifinder, a tool that helps users find the Fediverse accounts of their Twitter contacts, is still up and running at the time of publishing.
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