Recently, the Twitter announced that developers will need to pay to use its APIApplication programming interfaceor application programming interface.”>1which caused quite a stir in the community.
Soon after, Elon Musk tried to reassure them by saying that he would also provide a free option, which would only allow writing. Now, the social network has released new details about this decision in a thread.
Here’s what we’ll release ????
According to the tweets, developers will still be able to use the old free version until February 13th. After that, the following changes will take place:
- Basic paid access — which offers low API usage and access to the Ads API — will cost $100/month;
- The new free API access will give you access to only one token authenticated user (including login with Twitter) and will be limited to up to 1,500 tweets/monthwhich is about 50 tweets a day.
- Also on February 13th, the Premium API will be discontinued. Subscribers to this plan must migrate to Enterprise if they want to continue enjoying the benefits.
Despite being very worrying for developers in general, the average user will not be harmed — at least initially. The company argues that the new rules will “increase quality, reduce spam and enable a thriving ecosystem”.
On a related note — and we don’t know if this will continue to work — several users have reported that they are unable to access the developer forum. When trying to access twittercommunity.com, a popup appears asking for username and password to login.
Twitter has not yet clarified this fact, but perhaps this is directly related to the new API rules, since many developers used the forum precisely to ask questions and seek answers about the apps and features of the social network.
Tweets with 4,000 characters in the United States
For now only in the US, users of Twitter Blue — which arrived here in Brazil yesterday — you can now take advantage of the longer tweets. With a maximum of 4 thousand charactersnow those who like big text no longer need to use the threads to express whatever they want.
We know a lot of you do… and while we love a good thread, sometimes you just want to tweet it all at once. We understand that.
So we’re featuring the longest tweets! You will want to see this. Tap here ???? t.co/lge9udRzLE
As you can see in the tweet above, when it is embedded (or in the feed), the resource keeps a smaller size at 280 characters, with a link to access it in full.
It is clear that the change brings a certain discomfort, mainly due to the nature of the network itself, which emerged to have succinct texts. However, we cannot deny that the threads they are among us and — yes — people love to read them. It’s just a change in user behavior that the platform noticed and is adapting to it.
Many comment on the “death” of Twitter after several changes implemented by its new owner. What seems, however, is that there has never been so much talk about the social network as in recent days – even if it is in a complaining tone, of course.
via TechCrunch