Twitter delays controversial changes to its API platform again

Twitter has delayed the launch of its new Application Programming Interface (API) "by a few more days", the company has tweeted.

There has been an immense amount of enthusiasm for the upcoming changes with Twitter API. As part of our efforts to create an optimal experience for the developer community, we will be delaying the launch of our new API platform by a few more days.

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More information to follow… https://t.co/FUZcwJqf9p — Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) February 13, 2023

The new plans were to go into effect on February 9 but were then moved to February 13. Now it appears, developers will have to a little longer while Twitter finalises what it wants to do with API access.

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The controversial API program has earned the Elon Musk-led social media and microblogging platform a lot of ire from developers.

Under the new plans, free access will be limited to 1,500 tweets a month, “for a single authenticated user token, including Login with Twitter".

You will have to pay $100 a month for low-level API usage and access to the platform's Ads API. The Premium API plans would be discontinued and will be merged into Enterprise access for the API.

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This has worried a lot of people like academics or researchers who could previously access Twitter data for free, or good content bots, which help with reminders or saving videos, for instance.

Twitter has remained tight-lipped about what it eventually plans to do with the new API rules, and this is causing discontent among the developer community with repeated delays hampering their ability to plan.