Elon Musk has been yapping about his supposed support for content creators since he took over Twitter in October.
And yet, under his leadership, the platform has abruptly decided to start charging for access to its Api—a move that could kill thousands upon thousands of creator-made bots which for years have tweeted everything from memes and other tidbits of internet ephemera to art, quotes, user-submitted photos, trivia, and much, much more.
“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter Api, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead,” Twitter announced from its @TwitterDev handle.
For those not familiar, Api stands for “Application Programming Interface,” and is the backend part of a platform that allows third-party developers access to specific information and functions from that platform.
In the case of content-sharing bots—many of which are set to tweet at regular intervals,...
And yet, under his leadership, the platform has abruptly decided to start charging for access to its Api—a move that could kill thousands upon thousands of creator-made bots which for years have tweeted everything from memes and other tidbits of internet ephemera to art, quotes, user-submitted photos, trivia, and much, much more.
“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter Api, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead,” Twitter announced from its @TwitterDev handle.
For those not familiar, Api stands for “Application Programming Interface,” and is the backend part of a platform that allows third-party developers access to specific information and functions from that platform.
In the case of content-sharing bots—many of which are set to tweet at regular intervals,...
- 2/2/2023
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
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