{"id":22698,"date":"2023-03-30T01:39:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T01:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ff61ee5b-fc5a-403d-adaa-4cca4567e02112"},"modified":"2023-03-30T01:39:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T01:39:59","slug":"twitter-announces-new-api-pricing-including-a-limited-free-tier-for-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/twitter-announces-new-api-pricing-including-a-limited-free-tier-for-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter announces new API pricing, including a limited free tier for bots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter has finally confirmed<\/ins><\/span> some of the details and pricing for the new version of its API. The company had previously delayed<\/ins><\/span> the changes after confirming that it was banning<\/ins><\/span> third-party clients as part of a larger shakeup of its developer features.<\/p>\n

As expected, the company is maintaining a free tier with limited functionality, though it offers far less than its predecessor. Under the new free tier, which is aimed at bots and other \u201ctesting\u201d purposes, accounts can post up to 1,500 tweets a month, but won\u2019t be able to access any other featuires. That may offer a lifeline to some of Twitter\u2019s famed bot accounts<\/ins><\/span>, but at about 50 tweets a day, may prove to be too limited<\/ins><\/span> for those that post more frequently.<\/p>\n

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At $100 a month, the new \u201cbasic\u201d tier offers a bit more: developers can post up to 3,000 tweets a month at the user level and up to 50,000 a month at the app level. It also offers a read limit of 10,000 tweets a month, which, again, is far less than what was previously offered.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, an enterprise tier is meant for businesses that need a higher level of access, though details for that tier are still murky. According to Twitter\u2019s developer website<\/ins><\/span>, the enterprise tier will include \u201ccommercial-level access that meets your and your customer’s specific needs\u201d and other features. Businesses can apply for enterprise access, but the only pricing information Twitter has disclosed is that there will be “monthly subscription tiers.” <\/p>\n

It\u2019s also unclear what will happen to researchers and academics who currently rely on Twitter\u2019s API for their work. In a series of tweets, the company said<\/ins><\/span> it was \u201clooking at new ways to continue serving this community\u201d but didn\u2019t elaborate. Wired<\/em> previously reported<\/ins><\/span> the company had told some organizations API access could run as much as $42,000 a month, but that plan doesn’t seem to have materialized, at least not yet.<\/p>\n

The new details also mean that a lot of services using Twitter\u2019s older APIs could soon stop working altogether. The company confirmed that its existing APIs, used by a vast number<\/ins><\/span> of developers, researchers and other services, would be deprecated within the next 30 days. \u201cWe recommend that you migrate to the new tiers as soon as possible for a smooth transition,\u201d the company said. Though it\u2019s unclear just how many developers will be willing to pay for stripped down versions of the APIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twitter has finally confirmed some of the details and pricing for the new version of its API. The company had previously delayed the changes after confirming that it was banning third-party clients as part of a larger shakeup of its developer features. As expected, the company is maintaining a free tier with limited functionality, though …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22698"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=22698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}