Twitter announces free and basic tiers of its API

Initially, Twitter had planned to shut down free access to its API on February 9th, but this deadline has been extended to February 13th.

By Abhinav Kumar

February 9, 2023 at 9:20 pm

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A week after announcing the shutdown of free access to Twitter API, the company has said that it will be charging $100 per month for the basic tier of its Application Programming Interface (API). This will grant developers access to a limited level of API usage, as well as the Ads API. However, Twitter has not specified the exact details of what the “low level of API usage” entails.

Initially, Twitter had planned to shut down free access to its API on February 9th, but this deadline has been extended to February 13th without any further information about the API pricing restructuring and access levels, causing frustration among developers who are unable to plan their changes accordingly.

The announcement regarding the end of free API access faced a lot of backlash from developers and Twitter users, leading to Elon Musk tweeting that the company will provide a free API for bots posting “good” content.

In response, Twitter has announced that there will be a new form of free access available, which will allow for the creation of up to 1,500 tweets per month. This means that many of Musk’s “good” bots, such as automated accounts that post historical photos or helpful reminders, will be able to continue operating on the platform.

However, the monthly limit of 1,500 tweets is low and could still affect bots that post more frequently. This equates to approximately 50 tweets per day, which could be problematic for Twitter’s most active bots.

The company has also confirmed that it will be ending the Premium API and subscribers will have the option to switch to the Enterprise version of the service. There is still no word from the company on what options, if any, will be available for scientists, researchers, and students using Twitter’s developer tools for their projects.

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Bapun Raz May 23, 2011 #1

Twitter users yet again bring injunctions under scanner

London, May 22 : The controversy of injunction for celebrities got yet another hike when thousands of people posted messages on Twitter claiming to identify an EPL footballer who is taking legal actions against the site.

The married player, who is referred to as CTB in court documents, is said to have had a 'sexual relationship' with Imogen Thomas, a former contestant on the Big Brother reality TV show.

The legal bid comes after a Twitter user identified a number of people said to have taken out gagging orders, fuelling the privacy debate and highlighting the difficulty of enforcing injunctions. An estimated two million people are believed to have seen the list.

Scores of users were also claiming to identify a woman alleged to have had an affair with former Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin.

Christie-Miller, who sat on a committee headed by Lord Neuberger to review the use of super-injunctions, said the courts and parliament had to work out how to balance privacy with freedom of expression.

"We have a media culture at the moment which is very invasive, a tabloid culture. It's right that many things are published but there has to be a balance between publishing rights and privacy rights," scotsman.com quoted Miller as saying.

--ANI

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N Napster Jun 01, 2011 #2

Twitter Buys Online Ad Company

Twitter, which has made generating ad revenue one of its priorities, has acquired AdGrok, a company whose software is designed to simplify the creation and management of campaigns using Google's AdWords search advertising service.As of Tuesday AdGrok has stopped accepting new customers. It will shut down its AdWords management business and wipe out its servers by June 30, focusing entirely on enhancing Twitter's online advertising technology.

"On June 30th, we will also unlink all customers from the AdGrok Google accounts and securely delete our databases. Performance data and campaign structures from AdGrok customers will not be shared with Twitter," the company wrote in a blog post.

Based in San Francisco, AdGrok was founded last year and was backed financially by early-stage investment company Y Combinator.

The AdGrok technology will likely find its way into Twitter's Promoted Tweets ad service, which is similar in concept to Google's AdWords. Promoted Tweets are Twitter posts crafted for advertising that appear in Twitter search results when they contain a search query keyword. Advertisers pay Twitter for Promoted Tweets when end users perform a specific action as a result of the post, such as clicking on it, re-tweeting it, replying to it or labeling it as a "favorite."