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_Wired_ on how Twitter's new API-access pricing makes it inaccessible to social-network researchers, who have in the past relied heavily on twitter's easy access relative to other commercial social media providers: https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-data-api-prices-out-nearly-everyone/
Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone

Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data.

WIRED
Mar 10, 2023 at 7:01pmWeb
Show threadJohn Carlos BaezMar 11, 2023
@11011110 - it looks like Musk is too rich to know what's a reasonable price.
Show threadRahul NarainMar 11, 2023
@johncarlosbaez @11011110 And is well known to fire people who try to tell him what he doesn't know.