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

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

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Post by addisonl »

harvey9 wrote: post #19
mrtksn wrote: post #11

I'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…

I think Twitter will sell your attention in addition to other revenue streams, given the chance.

Exactly, your attention is always going to be sold to the highest bidder—that won't change.

Now you just get worse 3rd party apps and integrations. Interesting to see the attempt to spin this as a positive.

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

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Post by mrtksn »

croes wrote: post #29
mrtksn wrote: post #11

I'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…

And if collect data, pay for that too. When does Twitter start paying it's users who produce the data?

The free users remain being the product though, don't we? We are the reach and the mined so the company can sell that but at least maybe there's a chance of not being interrupted.

Ideally, everyone would pay to use the service and nothing would be mined for manipulation but that world is hard to imagine in 2023.

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

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Post by code_runner »

croes wrote: post #29
mrtksn wrote: post #11

I'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…

And if collect data, pay for that too. When does Twitter start paying it's users who produce the data?

Like it or not the service being available is the payment. People clearly already want to use it

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

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Post by anigbrowl »

mrtksn wrote: post #11

I'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…

Academics don't resell the data to others. In fact, their existing agreements with Twitter requires their published datasets (for reproducibility) to be anonymized precisely to ensure they don't become a commercial goldmine.

Given that most of the article is about the pricing tiers for academic use, based on marketing communications to universities, your comment seems strangely indifferent to the context of this news. These proposed costs are unaffordable precisely because academics are not running a business around the data. If the article were about enterprise data sales, your point would make sense.

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

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Post by _boffin_ »

croes wrote: post #29
mrtksn wrote: post #11

I'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…

And if collect data, pay for that too. When does Twitter start paying it's users who produce the data?

Lol what? Can you please explain your thinking on this unless you were just trying to be funny.

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

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Post by code_runner »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #31
mrtksn wrote: post #11

I'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…

Fully agree, I just wish I knew who these people are, because clearly he has looked at some data that suggests they'll pay up, or his hosting costs will be significantly lowered.

I’m not convinced Elon uses a lot of data in decisions like these. This might be just an arbitrary number to start negotiations from.

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

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Post by theFletch »

mbStavola wrote: post #16
theFletch wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a blue check by his name now, so...

So... nothing? If you click on his checkmark it tells you that he's a legacy verified account and does NOT pay for Twitter Blue.

Sorry, I guess I thought Musk had already removed legacy checks. The whole thing seems a little silly. King obviously doesn't need Twitter, but I'm sure he receives more value out of Twitter than $8/mo even so (or whatever they're charging now).

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

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

jacobedawson wrote: post #22

...Blackburn, however, says researchers will continue to find a way to scrutinize what’s happening on Twitter. “We’ve been mostly cut off from Facebook for years and we’ve continued to make progress,” he says. “It’s not like science is going to be held hostage by a guy that played himself into burning $44 billion on a website that makes no money, just so he could force all its users to read his shitposts.”

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

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Post by MuffinFlavored »

croes wrote: post #29
mrtksn wrote: post #11

I'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…

And if collect data, pay for that too. When does Twitter start paying it's users who produce the data?

> When does Twitter start paying it's users who produce the data?

Why do those users choose to produce data for Twitter/on Twitter for free?

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

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Post by mesozoic »

croes wrote: post #29
mrtksn wrote: post #11

I'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…

And if collect data, pay for that too. When does Twitter start paying it's users who produce the data?

When they have a viable alternative option that competes with twitter where they can get similar influence which his what most of them want
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