Elon Musk's Latest Twitter Change Could Kill Many Iconic Bot Accounts
A new change on Twitter is endangering all the fun on the platform! When Elon Musk bought Twitter last year, he openly spoke about how he wants to turn the company into a profitable venture. Not much later, we saw Twitter's focus shift to paid features through Twitter Blue, a subscription service through which users can get a verified tag and more.
Now, Twitter's application programming interface (API) is also set to become a premium feature.?
Goodbye, free API access on Twitter!
The API software essentially allows computer programmes to interact with each other.?
If you love bot accounts on Twitter (not the spam kind), this might mark the death knell for many of them, including the new bots that emerged after ChatGPT went public. Such automated bots are able to Tweet autonomously owing to API.
But on Thursday, Twitter announced that it would "no longer support free access to the Twitter API" starting February 9. This will be a bummer for many automated accounts like Emoji Mashup Bot, Progress Bar, ResNeXtGuesser, and more.
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"Twitter data are among the world¡¯s most powerful data sets. We¡¯re committed to enabling fast & comprehensive access so you can continue to build with us," TwitterDev wrote.
Unfortunately, this means that automated accounts will stop working this month unless their owners start paying for Twitter API.
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According to Indy100, basic Twitter API that is free to use will allow for 250 requests per month. The premium version of Twitter API would cost between $149-2,499 (Rs. 12,251-2,05,485) depending on the number of requests made by a user.
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