1 year ago

Controversy aside, Twitter’s decision to no longer offer free access to its https://thenewstack.io/developers-twitter-wants-your-bots-and-other-read-write-apps/ could create great opportunities for developers seeking a more robust and secure platform from the social media giant. However, the operative word is could, since a lot of investment and well-managed engineering talent — and a well-executed business plan — are required for the platform to deliver.

Twitter said it would extend free access to its API through February 13 (however, when the API was accessed before that date, a login was required).

“Twitter’s recent announcement to end its free access to its API has ruffled some feathers.

Through tweets, Musk vociferously described what he called a menace of bad-actor bots and bad-actor users due to free access to Twitter data through the API: Yeah, free API is being abused badly right now by bot scammers & opinion manipulators.