A lot of people use Twitter as their main source of information, because everything there happens in real time. This decision is potentially dumber than killing Twitter’s third-party clients. The company says that the decision was made in order to “increase quality, reduce spam, and enable a thriving ecosystem.” So while the free Twitter API will still be available, it will now have a limit of 1,500 tweets per month for each account. Twitter to limit the amount of tweets accounts can send with its APIįollowing everything that happened with Twitter today, the company thought it would be a good idea to make another big announcement. A few days ago, Musk announced that Twitter would launch a new “light, write-only API for bots providing good content that is free.” But of course, this wouldn’t come without a catch.

For example, you can only see the latest 9to5Mac posts on Twitter in real time thanks to this API.īut Twitter owner Elon Musk was generous enough to reconsider his decision. Last week, Twitter confirmed that it would shut down its free API, which would result in a lot of automated bots and accounts stopping working. It was the end of popular apps like Tweetbot and Tweetdeck, but Twitter didn’t stop there. Although the platform took a long time to explain what was going on, Twitter later announced that it would no longer let developers use its API (a tool for other apps and website to communicate with Twitter) to create alternative clients for the social network. Background on what’s happening with the Twitter APIĮarlier this year, many of Twitter’s third-party clients simply stopped working out of the blue. But then Twitter went through a major outage, and now the social network has announced new limitations to its API (or what’s left of it). The day began with the expansion of Twitter Blue to more countries and then the roll out of long tweets of up to 4,000 characters.

There’s been a lot of things happening on Twitter recently, but this Wednesday was a busy one for the social network.

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