Paul Haddad 
Step 1. Kill the most popular class of clients of an API, one of the few that could afford to pay money for access.
Step 2. Start charging for the API.
But hey at least 1 weeks notice this time…
A Twitter API->nMastodon API bridge server that covers a handful of the most popular API calls would probably be really popular. Yeah I know it's an easy migration but people (myself included) are lazy, the less work to move over the better.
The real big brain move is announcing that you are going to move to a paid model without announcing what the prices are.
You have a week to deal with edge functionality on your app/website breaking, you can wait and hope for the best or just nuke it right away. I know which choice I'd make.
People have been asking if this means Tweetbot might come back. Well it's a possibility if the new pricing is reasonable and ... HAHAHAHAHA
Too bad they didn't announce the new TwitterDev 2.0 animated logo along with this change.
Martin 
Niklas Josef Palm@paul they literally want informational bot accounts to pay. lol 😅
Robert Petersen 
Jay 🆘@paul I also have a feeling their “No replicating the Twitter experience” rule will remain intact
Sereno Casastorta 
Michael Haupt
Chase 
Andrea 
🇬🇧 🇮🇹@paul I still have 11 months and 1/2 valid subscription to Tweetbot 😅
Millions@nexthopself yeah same
I subscribed the day it went down too
@millionsofplayers my subscription got renewed the day before 😱
Internet Hedgehog@paul You never know, you might end up in a Tumblr-Automattic situation in a couple of years...
TJ Draper
EpiS MPH@paul It’s your business so your risk (obv) but in my mind how could anyone trust working with them at this point?
Marine Tachibana
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Drew Pickard@paul I both can't believe Space Karen did this and yet, of course he did
Elliot Vos
mellowfish@paul the really frustrating thing is that I have wanted a paid twitter api for *so long*. All the features the website has for a reasonable per user price. But I can’t expect that, even now.
Mauchi ⚓
John Gordon@paul Sadly it didn't occur to me that one motivation for the API base rate charge was that Elon is having second thoughts about having killed the alternative Twitter clients ...
Jamie@paul I would pay whatever amount for tweetbot over there again but his rules don’t make any sense!
Jeff
Massaging the Medium
MrB 🏴
tredstone@paul i don’t think so Tim
m3enzo
acer149@paul I would pay an increased Tweetbot sub price if your cost went up.
Erik@acer149
Sadly that would probably mean a monthly subscription of hundreds of dollars
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thedopefishlives (@[email protected])
@[email protected] People looking at this chart need to understand, API access is meant for apps. 500 requests/month for any app that does anything with Twitter whatsoever would equate to one user getting to view 20 tweets per day. Even 10,000 requests/month is an insanely low ceiling to try to operate under. Unless I'm misunderstanding something and this is for specific specialized APIs, there is no way any real Twitter integration is going to operate under anything but an enterprise license.
Bryan@paul it would be great if it was a possibility. Mastodon seems fantastic for the tech community but I’m not sure anyone else is going to migrate, even if Twitter dies, so Twitter is still pretty essential if one is interested in other topics.
Joe Pham 
@paul I think there's no guarantee that they would not hurt developers the same way they did. But I understand under a business-oriented perspective, dipping back to the water makes sense
Kenny Chukwudinma@paul ivory is awesome but I need my tweetbot back! So please!!!
Frank van Manen@paul Tweetbot comeback? HAHAHA. You obviously don’t want to support a service you (/we) don’t trust.
Jorg Geerlings@paul Well Elon and reasonable don’t exist in one sentence …
Maicon@paul Let's wait for the scenes of the next chapter. 👊🤨
Adam Williams@paul i can’t wait to see elon find out how bad this will hurt his platform. twitter for sign in or sign up on web? yeah it’ll vanish overnight. integration with popular apps like discord and platforms like xbox and playstation. yeah somethibg tells me they won’t pay either. twitter is going to be dropped form relevance so fast
Evil Gato 2077@paul I nuked the fuck out of my accounts with Twitter, thanks to the moronic actions from Elmo.
Pls, Paul… I’m already cozy in Mastodon.
Brandon Tyler@paul Never do business with a megalomaniac.
Srinivas@paul but the TOS still says you cannot impersonate the official Twitter client so they can never be trusted again
Todd Smith@todd_smith @paul that is a fair point
Jason Petersen (he)@paul tell those people to get over here
Chris Russell
Joshua Hürzeler@paul I guess also with the new api pricing third party app still banned.
And if this screenshot is correct I saw, then the prices are far away from reasonable 😅
Ajaj Alawneh 
@paul Duck you Musk
Juan Villela@paul But this man is taking us to Mars! He knows what he's doing. 🙃
Brian Wolf@paul If this rolls out as smooth as Twitter Blur I don’t foresee any issues! </s>
Garvin Hicking@paul whats really left for API use?
- Content Management for Social Media: Probably can be drained $€$ til Quitter dies
- Social services like xbox/uplay for discoverability: may also be paid because big services
- Funny or personal bots: Dead when it costs a non-funnycoin amount of realmoney
- Info bots: May need to get funding and die, or their funding may now get cut
- private Twitter clients under the radar: Don't see people paying for it, when their on the axelist already
- ...? That's it?
- Content Management for Social Media: Probably can be drained $€$ til Quitter dies
- Social services like xbox/uplay for discoverability: may also be paid because big services
- Funny or personal bots: Dead when it costs a non-funnycoin amount of realmoney
- Info bots: May need to get funding and die, or their funding may now get cut
- private Twitter clients under the radar: Don't see people paying for it, when their on the axelist already
- ...? That's it?
fartingloud 💨@paul is like Easter, when it arrives it arrives. 🤪
Ricardo Carvalho@paul there is a whole world of projects using twitter for simple things that won’t necessarily turn into business but is anyway good for twitter. It is all dead now.
Ricardo (@[email protected])
I can see a lot of advertising agencies cases and projects for Cannes Lions being killed with this new Twitter policy charging for API access * chef’s kiss *
@paul The tone of all TwitterDevs announcements seems to parallel those of Dear Leader:
"Fuck You" by default, and grudging civility if you're giving them something they want. Really flagrant Main Character Syndrome.
Paul Robinson@paul he’s like a school leaver dabbling in business for the first time.
Josh@paul because musk is an idiot who just wants money and think all these devs are sheep
Pierre
Mark Jardine 
@breadandwater no 3rd party clients will never be allowed. This is just for other small apps and bots.
@mark thank you for the clarification sir!
Roberto Villegas 💙💛@paul I was thinking of setting up an ifttt cross post for here to twitter, but that might not be possible. Oh well, once I get my power back, it’ll be time to work on my own instance.