Chris TrottierTwitter is killing free API access.
Will most devs pay for access? No thanks.
If what happened to 3rd party clients proves true, I have a feeling many devs will move their efforts to the Fediverse.
Killing free API access is an incredibly terrible business decision from Twitter.
1. It was once free
2. It’s main competitor (Mastodon) doesn’t just offer a free API, it’s open source
3. It’s also competing with ActivtyPub
Elon Musk is motivating the Fediverse ecosystem!
Connected Places@atomicpoet By an large this is a pretty good thing and boost for the #fediverse. The one worry I have is that people will treat the Twitter API and Mastodon API as the same, without regard for how people here feel about scrapers. Think we will revisit the search/scraping/consent debate pretty regularly in the coming weeks and months.