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I wonder if big tech is learning from Elon Musk’s example. I shudder to think it, but maybe they see twitter is still relatively functional with a fraction of

I wonder if big tech is learning from Elon Musk’s example. I shudder to think it, but maybe they see twitter is still relatively functional with a fraction of the staff

DoreenMichele 4y ago
And hoping to charge people $42,000/month for full access to the API. I am laughing up my sleeve here and wondering if they will have any takers. That's, let's call it, well above average. https://nordicapis.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-pricing-your-api/#:~:text=While%20every%20API%20is%20different%2C%20these%20benchmarks%20are,%24100%20Enterprise%3A%20%24150%20or%20more%20but%20varies%20widely https://nordicapis.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-pricing-your-ap...
- antibasilisk 4y ago
  >I am laughing up my sleeve here and wondering if they will have any takers. Considering the number of huge finance firms who use Twitter for sentiment analysis, they will absolutely have takers, since it's still cheaper than paying someone to write a scraper.
  - DoreenMichele 4y ago
    How many would you guesstimate? And can you suggest a few names? Can anyone supply me with ballpark figures on prices to write a scraper? (And anything else folks can think of to give me a better picture here.)
    - whatisthishn 4y ago
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    - _blz2 4y ago
      how would a scraper work for free if access is rate limited?
      - DoreenMichele 4y ago
        I'm just going off the reply to me and wondering if anyone can fill in some details on who might pay $42k/mo and why.
      - everforward 4y ago
        Distribute it. E.g. one idea would be to make some kind of browser extension that scrapes tweets when the user loads a page from Twitter. You could make it free by offering users some kind of feature in exchange (post tweets later or some kind of analytics or something). You could make it cheaper than paying for the Twitter API by paying users to install the extension (e.g. you could give out 4,200 $10 Amazon gift cards a month for the price of the Twitter API). You could also use one of those networks that let you use people's home IP's if it's IP rate-limited. Less ethically, you could try to pay an owner of an already-popular browser extension to bundle in a Twitter scraper. I don't know what that costs, but at $42k/month for the real API, you could probably pay a pretty penny and have it still be cheaper.
    - antibasilisk 4y ago
      Goldman, BlackRock, JPM etc, the usual suspects really
- whatisthishn 4y ago
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- runamok 4y ago
  He's still doing 4:20 themed stuff? Truly galaxy-brained.
austhrow743 4y ago
Surely they didn't think they needed anywhere near as many staff as they have to achieve "relatively functional".

I wonder if big tech is learning from Elon Musk’s example. I shudder to think it, but maybe they see twitter is still relatively functional with a fraction of the staff

DoreenMichele 4y ago

And hoping to charge people $42,000/month for full access to the API. I am laughing up my sleeve here and wondering if they will have any takers. That's, let's call it, well above average. https://nordicapis.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-pricing-your-api/#:~:text=While%20every%20API%20is%20different%2C%20these%20benchmarks%20are,%24100%20Enterprise%3A%20%24150%20or%20more%20but%20varies%20widely https://nordicapis.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-pricing-your-ap...

antibasilisk 4y ago
>I am laughing up my sleeve here and wondering if they will have any takers. Considering the number of huge finance firms who use Twitter for sentiment analysis, they will absolutely have takers, since it's still cheaper than paying someone to write a scraper.
- DoreenMichele 4y ago
  How many would you guesstimate? And can you suggest a few names? Can anyone supply me with ballpark figures on prices to write a scraper? (And anything else folks can think of to give me a better picture here.)
  - whatisthishn 4y ago
    [flagged]
  - _blz2 4y ago
    how would a scraper work for free if access is rate limited?
    - DoreenMichele 4y ago
      I'm just going off the reply to me and wondering if anyone can fill in some details on who might pay $42k/mo and why.
    - everforward 4y ago
      Distribute it. E.g. one idea would be to make some kind of browser extension that scrapes tweets when the user loads a page from Twitter. You could make it free by offering users some kind of feature in exchange (post tweets later or some kind of analytics or something). You could make it cheaper than paying for the Twitter API by paying users to install the extension (e.g. you could give out 4,200 $10 Amazon gift cards a month for the price of the Twitter API). You could also use one of those networks that let you use people's home IP's if it's IP rate-limited. Less ethically, you could try to pay an owner of an already-popular browser extension to bundle in a Twitter scraper. I don't know what that costs, but at $42k/month for the real API, you could probably pay a pretty penny and have it still be cheaper.
  - antibasilisk 4y ago
    Goldman, BlackRock, JPM etc, the usual suspects really
whatisthishn 4y ago
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runamok 4y ago
He's still doing 4:20 themed stuff? Truly galaxy-brained.

austhrow743 4y ago

Surely they didn't think they needed anywhere near as many staff as they have to achieve "relatively functional".