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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 kube-system »

1270018080 wrote: post #17
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…

They could make even more money if they charged $84k per month! Genius business model.

that depends on the demand elasticity.

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Post by polishdude20 »

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…

Except twitter won't pay the people who have created the data in the first place. So it's stopping short of actually paying your dues.

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

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Post by JohnFen »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #48
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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> maybe they're doing it because their political ideology

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but my attitude about this has nothing to do with politics.

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

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Post by officeplant »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #48
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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>their political ideology demands purity

I wasn't aware Musk had one.

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

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Post by fortuna86 »

jmercouris wrote: post #7
altdataseller wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Twitter also used to suspend API keys seemingly at random, making research data on Twitter nearly impossible.

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Post by RobRivera »

polishdude20 wrote: post #52
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…

Except twitter won't pay the people who have created the data in the first place. So it's stopping short of actually paying your dues.

I dont expect to be paid for my content creation on facebook or instagram.

Yt, for sure.

I think it is fair to say this is a moving topic

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Post by slg »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #48
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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It is possible to criticize Musk and his management of Twitter for completely apolitical reasons. You have to be a sycophant to describe his management style as anything other than chaotic. There are literally employees at the company who don't have any work because there is no one to assign them to a department or team. There are people who don't even know if they work there anymore because the layoffs were handled so poorly. It goes way beyond Musk's opinions on free speech or whatever political opinion you want to blame. The whole purchase has clearly been a train wreck up until this point.

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

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Post by secos »

vlunkr wrote: post #12
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.

Any idea how much this compares to previous prices?

The last time I talked to Twitter sales (about 2 years ago) they were asking for 6k/mo.

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Post by harvey9 »

code_runner wrote: post #38
harvey9 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

They’ll chase anything that makes money but if the ONLY source of money is our attention etc… that’s a worse spot right?

It is for Twitter. Our attention is a synonym for showing ads. If advertisers step away because they got nervous about the behavior of the new owner then it's better for Twitter to have other sources of income than not.
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