I imagine this is less about making money off developers as it is about making misinformation research cost prohibitive.
Gotta launder that Russian money somehow. Now they can pay him more without having to make as many accounts.
do third party twitter developers even exist anymore?
I assume all the bot farms are paying for the privilege.
Didn’t Reddit do exactly this? Isn’t that why I’m here?
There are dozens of us!
Can’t see how many one is surprised, that a capitalist company Reddit did this api fee, now x is doing it. Capitalist see, capitalist do.
Didnt twitter do it before reddit?
Yes. Twitter was first, then Reddit, now Twitter is another fee
It’s a weird decision to further monetize access to a platform that’s hemorrhaging users and engagement.
Maybe it’s a way to launder dirty money or take bribes, the way solid booking a floor at the Trump Tower for a few months is a way to launder money.
It’s weird to you cause you’re not a mega-brain CEO… if revenue drops, you raise the prices, obviously.
i mean hemorrhaging users and engagement is why they’re trying to monetize whatever they can
You don’t get it. Because there’s less and less they need to squeeze them even further!
🧠🧠🧠
And next week he’ll xeet about suing the developers who leave even though it makes no sense.
Xitter has served its purpose. After the election he’ll probably ditch it.
He also likes it so literal children can publicly adore him. Also grooming.
Yup. It was bought as a tool to disrupt the next election. In that respect, it’s a hell of a good buy.
This would have sounding effects on researchers, like mis- and dis-information, as most are still spread there, where they use API to aggregate and analyze tweets (or whatever it is called now).
