Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone

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Post by danso » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 8:09 PM UTC

Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone
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#2

Post by jmercouris » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 8:25 PM UTC

Nothing new. It has been prohibitively expensive and cumbersome to get Twitter data for years, even for research as an Institution.

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Post by graupel » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 8:28 PM UTC

This sounds like pricing used to be for the Twitter Firehose - so expensive (and so, so much data to wrangle)

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Post by mbStavola » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 8:28 PM UTC

Verified was also going to be $20/mo, I'm sure businesses and researchers are just going to wait it out until the price drops.

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Post by altdataseller » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 8:29 PM UTC

jmercouris wrote: post #2

Nothing new. It has been prohibitively expensive and cumbersome to get Twitter data for years, even for research as an Institution.

False. You could search thru and consume almost 5-10% of all tweets for free with the free API provided you had enough user tokens.

Of course if you paid the full firehose, it would be much more expensive

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Post by KomoD » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 8:30 PM UTC

https://archive.ph/mxifu

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Post by jmercouris » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 8:31 PM UTC

altdataseller wrote: post #5

jmercouris wrote: post #2

Nothing new. It has been prohibitively expensive and cumbersome to get Twitter data for years, even for research as an Institution.

False. You could search thru and consume almost 5-10% of all tweets for free with the free API provided you had enough user tokens. Of course if you paid the full firehose, it would be much more expensive

I don't know what you mean about it being false. If you circumvent the API license by making tons of tokens and connecting from different IPs it is possible- much in the same way that a bank has free money if you rob it.

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Post by bydo » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 8:31 PM UTC

mbStavola wrote: post #4

Verified was also going to be $20/mo, I'm sure businesses and researchers are just going to wait it out until the price drops.

So we just need Stephen King to chime in again?

Edit for context: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587312517679878144

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Post by codetrotter » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 8:33 PM UTC

bydo wrote: post #8

mbStavola wrote: post #4

Verified was also going to be $20/mo, I'm sure businesses and researchers are just going to wait it out until the price drops.

So we just need Stephen King to chime in again? Edit for context: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587312517679878144

Idk. Context?

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Post by beeskneecaps » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 8:34 PM UTC

codetrotter wrote: post #9

bydo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So we just need Stephen King to chime in again? Edit for context: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587312517679878144

Idk. Context?

https://twitter.com/stephenking/status/1587042605627490304 and subsequently https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587312517679878144