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Who do you charge for the API calls?

• emmab 11y ago
  Ideally the developer would be able to choose between paying themselves or letting users pay through micropayments.
  • mahouse 11y ago
    With the amount of app piracy, this would make no sense, in my opinion. Developers would be actually robbed.
    • untog 11y ago
      Aside from that, almost all apps are paid for once, not on a subscription basis.
  • wsinks 11y ago
    Pretty sure your statement is a breakthrough.
• itsmillertime4u 11y ago
  I'd gladly pay for premium API access as a Twitter user which would then allow me to use third party apps.
• fweespeech 11y ago
  2) Charge for API calls. --- For in-house development and/or SaaS software that interfaces with Twitter. Even something like $.10 per 1,000 requests would add up pretty fast for large deployments. Example? http://freshdesk.com/integrations/help-desk-ticketing-twitter http://freshdesk.com/integrations/help-desk-ticketing-twitte... These people could be milked by Twitter. Its a SaaS webapp so they can protect their API access. 3) Charge for "premium membership" that unlocks the api at like $10/user/year --- app piracy isn't an issue if a user is paying to unlock the API for their account Also, if app piracy is an issue because they can get ahold of your API keys, that just means you need to route it through your internal API and secure things properly. It isn't Twitters job to fix the fact you don't want to have any infrastructure.