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My guess is this is where they announce new applications for 3rd party clients that need to pay fees and show ads

by mvid 4y ago

helsinkiandrew 4y ago
A few $/month for each user for API access or perhaps free for verified/blue users would make sense.
- suction 4y ago
  So if I create a free Twitter client that has 10000 users, I will have to pay Elon 80000 Dollars every month? Seems a worthwhile effort ;-)
  - helsinkiandrew 4y ago
    I don't think Twitter cares about free Twitter clients, or even commercial ones. It's always amazed me that TweetDeck has existed for so long, but now if users aren't being monetized by ads or paying for (Blue) features in the Twitter app I can see them not being welcome on Musks Twitter.
    - darreninthenet 4y ago
      TweetDeck survived as it's owned by Twitter
      - helsinkiandrew 4y ago
        Sorry meant TweetBot!
  - hgsgm 4y ago
    Your users can pay. This is the "insert API key to continue" model, standard across the industry.
    - suction 4y ago
      [dead]
- rvz 4y ago
  It should be $/month of the third party app developer or a tiered plan where you choose depending on the number of users using it. An easy win-win-win-win for Twitter, partners, users and developers.
andrewclunn 4y ago
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iLoveOncall 4y ago
That sounds perfectly reasonable to be honest.
- smcl 4y ago
  Perfectly reasonable would be telling their existing API users “we will revoke your access to the APIs you are using and will introduce a new program where you have to pay a bit more to use them” with some kind of notice period that overlapped with the introduction of the new program. What they did was suddenly yank access for a handful of apps then go silent for four days, before sending an email out to API users for (maybe?) a new program which we can’t be 100% sure was part of the plan or just an old scheduled mailer by a now-fired person. We are left guessing because nobody really knows what’s going on at Twitter any more.
  - iLoveOncall 4y ago
    That's not the topic at hand.
    - deleted 4y ago
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    - Vinnl 4y ago
      It kinda is - that's the reason OP labelled it as "unbridled audacity".
    - torben-friis 4y ago
      How is their discontinuation without warning or communication of the old api not relevant to the topic of the new one?
      - iLoveOncall 4y ago
        Because the comment thread is about the monetization of the API, not how Twitter communicates with 3rd party developers.
nayroclade 4y ago
Perhaps, but if they had a plan to monetize 3rd party clients, then the first people they'd want to sign up would be existing clients with developed products and an install base. Instead it seems they just silently killed them.

My guess is this is where they announce new applications for 3rd party clients that need to pay fees and show ads

by mvid 4y ago

My guess is this is where they announce new applications for 3rd party clients that need to pay fees and show ads

helsinkiandrew 4y ago

A few $/month for each user for API access or perhaps free for verified/blue users would make sense.

suction 4y ago
So if I create a free Twitter client that has 10000 users, I will have to pay Elon 80000 Dollars every month? Seems a worthwhile effort ;-)
- helsinkiandrew 4y ago
  I don't think Twitter cares about free Twitter clients, or even commercial ones. It's always amazed me that TweetDeck has existed for so long, but now if users aren't being monetized by ads or paying for (Blue) features in the Twitter app I can see them not being welcome on Musks Twitter.
  - darreninthenet 4y ago
    TweetDeck survived as it's owned by Twitter
    - helsinkiandrew 4y ago
      Sorry meant TweetBot!
- hgsgm 4y ago
  Your users can pay. This is the "insert API key to continue" model, standard across the industry.
  - suction 4y ago
    [dead]
rvz 4y ago
It should be $/month of the third party app developer or a tiered plan where you choose depending on the number of users using it. An easy win-win-win-win for Twitter, partners, users and developers.

andrewclunn 4y ago

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iLoveOncall 4y ago

That sounds perfectly reasonable to be honest.

smcl 4y ago
Perfectly reasonable would be telling their existing API users “we will revoke your access to the APIs you are using and will introduce a new program where you have to pay a bit more to use them” with some kind of notice period that overlapped with the introduction of the new program. What they did was suddenly yank access for a handful of apps then go silent for four days, before sending an email out to API users for (maybe?) a new program which we can’t be 100% sure was part of the plan or just an old scheduled mailer by a now-fired person. We are left guessing because nobody really knows what’s going on at Twitter any more.
- iLoveOncall 4y ago
  That's not the topic at hand.
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]
  - Vinnl 4y ago
    It kinda is - that's the reason OP labelled it as "unbridled audacity".
  - torben-friis 4y ago
    How is their discontinuation without warning or communication of the old api not relevant to the topic of the new one?
    - iLoveOncall 4y ago
      Because the comment thread is about the monetization of the API, not how Twitter communicates with 3rd party developers.

nayroclade 4y ago

Perhaps, but if they had a plan to monetize 3rd party clients, then the first people they'd want to sign up would be existing clients with developed products and an install base. Instead it seems they just silently killed them.