Twitter’s API issues have frustrated developers in each of Twitter’s new API access tiers. Those with Basic or Pro plans — paying $100 and $5000 a month for API access, respectively — have experienced unannounced changes to their plans, numerous bugs, and often receive zero customer support. And developers shelling out for Twitter’s Enterprise API Plan, which starts at $42,000 per month, are experiencing sudden outages and disappointing service considering the money they’re paying.

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    1 year ago

    Anyone paying for the API access should have seen this coming. I’m surprised Twitter made it longer than the end of last year. At this rate I’m not too sure about end of this year.

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    While I am unsurprised, I do feel bad for the developers who are stuck dealing with the manchild who runs Twitter.

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      Seriously. Imagine the developers who sunk all of their time, effort, and money to make great and beloved 3rd party apps for these platforms to see it completely screwed over in the span of mere months by people who do not understand what made these platforms unique and successful.

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      All the good ones got fired or quit by now anyway. The only people left are a bunch of “team players.”

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    1 year ago

    How long before Musk announces a VR version of twitter, called “Metastasis”?

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    I have trouble wrapping my mind around the fact the is some sort of market value to be had by paying 42,000 per month to twitter.

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          I don’t do this work but from what I heard from my uni, librarians are sharing guides to analyze twitter from web archive. So I’m not sure whether there are researchers that actually pay, or at least at that full price. Even reddit/pushshiftapi makes some exceptions for researchers and moderators, for the time being.