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.
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. Also Read | Twitter stands to make millions from previously banned accounts: Report

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.