If you are going to influence people, pay for the reach and If you are going to mine data, pay for the data. I guess the exact pricing can be adjusted according to the market needs but I agree with the paid access approach.
Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone
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#12Nothing new. It has been prohibitively expensive and cumbersome to get Twitter data for years, even for research as an Institution.
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#14I'm not the greatest Musk fan but IMHO his approach to charge those who benefits from Twitter is spot on and I'm actually rooting for him to be able to find a viable business model which does not rely on selling my attention to highest bidder. If you are going to influence people, pay for the reach and If you are going to mine data, pay for the data. I guess the exact pricing can be adjusted according to the market n…
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://twitter.com/stephenking/status/1587042605627490304 and subsequently https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587312517679878144
There's a blue check by his name now, so...
If you click on his checkmark it tells you that he's a legacy verified account and does NOT pay for Twitter Blue.
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#17I'm not the greatest Musk fan but IMHO his approach to charge those who benefits from Twitter is spot on and I'm actually rooting for him to be able to find a viable business model which does not rely on selling my attention to highest bidder. If you are going to influence people, pay for the reach and If you are going to mine data, pay for the data. I guess the exact pricing can be adjusted according to the market n…
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#19I'm not the greatest Musk fan but IMHO his approach to charge those who benefits from Twitter is spot on and I'm actually rooting for him to be able to find a viable business model which does not rely on selling my attention to highest bidder. If you are going to influence people, pay for the reach and If you are going to mine data, pay for the data. I guess the exact pricing can be adjusted according to the market n…