Twitter to revoke free access to the Twitter API beginning Feb 9

This just in, straight from the bird's mouth (beak?):

Well #DEVCommunity, now you know. What do you think?

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[cubiclesocial]

Bye-bye Twitter!

Most media outlets automate their social media posts via API calls. If they have to pay per tweet/post, they'll leave the platform rather than pay. If it is a flat monthly rate as it seems like it will initially be, they might pay for that but will seriously consider other options because the next obvious money grab will be per tweet/post and the next money grab after that will depend upon audience size (bigger audience = more money per tweet/post!) and there's no way anyone's going to go for that.

[Calin Baenen]

Bye-bye Twitter!

Most media outlets automate their social media posts via API calls. If they have to pay per tweet/post, they'll leave the platform rather than pay.

First most people leave, now most entities are going to have left.
Though, this could be deliberate just to get rid of Twitter faster.    /j

[Thomas Bnt]

So sad... It's a pity that it is now limited to paid access. Bye-bye bots.
Bye-bye @splash_everyday :c

[Vladimír Macháček]

@erinposting Well, I don't know if that can work, but there I once bypassed the similar issue somewhere else with Puppeteer pptr.dev/ and Tesseract tesseract.projectnaptha.com/.

I think, that it would be possible to login, send tweets, read latest posts with hastags and such...

It's not the same like using an API, but if somebody wants to just "post" something using a bot, I guess, some smart guys could figure that out.

[theredfish]

I wonder if it's just to stop platforms to be built on top of Twitter. They maybe hope to centralize the information via their app/web. They don't necessarily want to make money with the API but with ads?

[Porthos Fu]

#mastodon #fediverse

[Yafeth Tandi Bendon]

So, back to manual/automatic web scraping without API, fellas?

[Samit Rimal]

I think its a good thing. It controls the bots.