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According to the post, the Twitter API was already generating $400M/year in revenue. Not sure what it cost, but that doesn't sound like a charity to me.
by santoshalper 4y ago
According to the post, the Twitter API was already generating $400M/year in revenue. Not sure what it cost, but that doesn't sound like a charity to me.
- brunes 4y agoThat is the commercial API. People keep treating these the same, when they have nothing to do with eachother.
- saryant 4y agoYou need both. Without the free API you don’t have a funnel of new customers who can grow into the enterprise tiers. They have a hell of a lot to do with each other beyond that too. (Led the search API team at Twitter and worked on both API platforms)