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New Twitter API pricing starts at $42,000 per month
- stevespang 4y ago[dead]
- antomeie 4y agoWhat did it previously cost before this change?
- MallocVoidstar 4y agoIIRC it was $99/month and increased based on number of requests. I can't figure out where that was listed to check using the Internet Archive.
- antomeie 4y agook, so safe to say then that this is a calculated way of removing third party services from their platform?
- j0hnyl 4y agoThere were many tiers, but it did go up into the 5 figures for large volumes.
- starkparker 4y agoAn old screenshot of the dashboard from Twitter Community: https://global.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/original/3X/b/4/b42b6b7e4db2db3f51db70b439e9f111105db04d.png https://global.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/original/3X/b/4/b42..., https://twittercommunity.com/t/api-pricing-its-very-dark-out-here/160855/11 https://twittercommunity.com/t/api-pricing-its-very-dark-out... $99/mo. for 100 requests, $1,899/mo. for 2,500 requests. > 1 request is 30 days worth of tweets, or 500 tweets, whichever is first
- RealWorldBrain 4y agoThere were no official prices on the twitter pages for the search endpoints and the powertrack apis. I tried to inquire and that is when I found out about the pricing changes (I am @blackforestboi on Twitter). There were some prices mentioned about the Account Activity API which were also quite pricey already. I think something like $2500 to follow updates of 500 accounts or so. The key difference is that most APIs consumers and projects used were the v1.1 and v2 apis which were free to use with rate limits that were actually quite generous. (tweets, timelines, messages, bookmarks, lists, followers etc) Now those APIs are all behind that enterprise paywall with that entry price of $42.000
- raverbashing 4y agoGreat news! Hopefully this will make most services drop out of Twitter
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoWith those prices it might be cheaper to reverse engineer regular Twitter API used by their web interface and Nitter.
- msm_ 4y agoIt's always cheaper, but it breaks theirs terms of service, and they may block you at any time. Not something any business will take lightly.
- mywittyname 4y agoAt that point, maybe businesses will stop caring. Especially in an era of cost cutting.
- ThrowawayTestr 4y agoFor the price Twitter is asking you could hire a team full time to maintain a scraper.
- hungryforcodes 4y agoWell, one junior anyways...
- zeruch 4y agoGiven how arbitrary their own decisions are (including breaching their own rental and other contractual agreements) i'd say its even odds.
- ethicalsmacker 4y agoAlternatively, create a business that wraps Twitter's public data/API and sell access to your API starting at $99/month. A sort of.... API arbitrage?
- advisedwang 4y ago
- UncleMeat 4y ago"World's (almost) richest person consistently sets prices using 420 and 69 because weed and sex are funny" is just so dumb.
- hungryforcodes 4y ago...or FUNNY!
- leobg 4y agoHitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is one of his favorite books. The 420 is a reference to “42”being the answer to the meaning of life. Nothing to do with weed.
- taskforcegemini 4y agoeven if you had a source for Musk saying this, I'd doubt it would be the real reason. 420 is a reference to weed, not to "42" of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
- leobg 4y agoHe made references to 42 long before 420 ever came up. Certainly long before the weed smoking Joe Rogan episode. The 420 joke is a reference to his tweets trying to take Tesla private. 42 wasn’t in the right range as a target price. But 420 was. And since this tweet turned out a debacle, he now uses that number. It’s like 42 squared. Or rather, an order of magnitude better than 42. If you don’t get the joke and rather want to believe he has some weird connection to the weed subculture, feel free.
- lysecret 4y agoProbably mostly targeting financial services companies with those prices.