If the "Third Part App ban" hadn't killed us off, this definitely would have!
It's a shame to see Twitter go down like this. Slowly drilling holes in their own boat.
Hopefully we can get #NewCaw completed before Twitter tanks completely!
---
RT @TwitterDev
Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead ๐งต
https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922
We've got to be reading this wrong.
$100 for 100 API requests PER MONTH?!
Yeah, you can fetch 500 tweets per request butโฆ that's MUCH lower than free got.
And what hobbyist is going to commit $100 EVERY MONTH trying something out? ๐ฎ
Also, this means that our Moa bridge is going to be killed off. So cross-posting won't work. So expect us to post EVEN LESS stuff here on Twitter.
If we're going to post it once, then it's going to be on Mastodon! #TootToot
@cawbird Oh shit, my bad. In that case that's seriously crazy.
No Hobbist is going to pay that.
Wonder what sites like Zapier and IFTTT are going to to do.
Is that the cost of ANY api call or just search?
I've got my own PHP code that posts our sites RSS feed to our twitter, about 20 articles per day.
If those costing are per Tweet we make, that's going to cost us over $700 a month lol Obviously we won't be paying that ๐
@darkufo It's Twitter. They're not perfectly clear. But as far as we can tell then it's any API calls.
Based on the announcements then there _might_ be a "paid-for-basic" account released at some point. But that's the only pricing available when they posted about free API access going away.
Everything would be better if people just used RSS feeds.
@darkufo As for sites like Zapier and IFTTT (and Tumblr) they only have three options:
1) Pay extortionate amounts of money (even if they negotiate good Enterprise rates) and make a loss
2) Pass on the charges (which most people will refuse)
3) Ditch Twitter integration on the basis that Musk is an idiot
Cawbird
DarkUFO ๐ฝ
ใใใ