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Twitter API will cost money starting on February 9th

• naetius 4y ago
  <sarcastic>Well, at least things are improving: we got a seven days heads-up.</sarcastic>
• ashwagary 4y ago
  This means alot of interesting price and market stat tracking bots will be dead soon? If so a major use is going out the window.
  • miohtama 4y ago
    I assume you can still scrape for free by using the web API.
    • ashwagary 4y ago
      I think those accounts use free api access to post that data in tweets.
• bxio 4y ago
  7 Days notice with no details on alternatives. Nice one, twitter, I'm sure this won't drive anyone off the platform or anything.
  • ceejayoz 4y ago
    Not even pricing information!
• jhaile 4y ago
  Twitter is a train wreck. One week notice? No pricing information? No details on how to sign up or migrate to this? No confidence that this won't cause service disruptions? No blog post on their engineering blog with details?
  • papito 4y ago
    You can't lose money if you are not making any money. Elon Musk is BRILLIANT.
• ChrisArchitect 4y ago
  So unclear, so out of nowhere. What does this mean? Data pulling or actual 'use' of twitter like posting tweets? If it's the latter that would kill a million accounts that post Sucks. Why does everything have to suck.
• ChrisArchitect 4y ago
  [dupe] Multiple discussion threads going on here, might want to merge Dang https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34622788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34622788