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

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Post by cmh89 »

recuter wrote: post #107
mike_d wrote: post #24

All of these moves make sense when you zoom out and realize Musk has no interest in Twitter as a business. It is a megaphone to amplify his own voice and the voices that support his viewpoints. Having third party API consumers able to pull in content and reorder it other than how he wants it presented is counter to that goal. The genius of Fox News was "why spend money on buying political attack ads when you can just…

What are his viewpoints and how are they amplified considering anybody can post anything?

>What are his viewpoints

Musk is very vocal about his far-right views. He's anti-union, anti-public health, etc.

>how are they amplified considering anybody can post anything?

Anyone can post anything, but Musk can and has systemically prioritized his tweets over organic content.

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

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Post by hn2017 »

mike_d wrote: post #24

All of these moves make sense when you zoom out and realize Musk has no interest in Twitter as a business. It is a megaphone to amplify his own voice and the voices that support his viewpoints. Having third party API consumers able to pull in content and reorder it other than how he wants it presented is counter to that goal. The genius of Fox News was "why spend money on buying political attack ads when you can just…

Precisely. That is his end goal to spread right wing viewpoints.

https://www.axios.com/2022/10/30/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-tweet...

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

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Post by hn2017 »

secos wrote: post #58
vlunkr wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That is false. https://twitter.com/stokel/status/1634310536723668995?s=20

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

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Post by recuter »

cmh89 wrote: post #111
recuter wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are his viewpoints and how are they amplified considering anybody can post anything?

>What are his viewpoints Musk is very vocal about his far-right views. He's anti-union, anti-public health, etc. >how are they amplified considering anybody can post anything? Anyone can post anything, but Musk can and has systemically prioritized his tweets over organic content.

> Anyone can post anything, but Musk can and has systemically prioritized his tweets over organic content.

I'd be interested in any sort of proof.

> Musk is very vocal about his far-right views. He's anti-union, anti-public health, etc.

Please show specific examples of his far-right views, so I can understand what specifically you mean by that term other than things you personally find disagreeable.

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

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Post by MBCook »

user3939382 wrote: post #79
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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At this point it seems far more likely he was scared of discovery and penalties in the Twitter lawsuit over him trying to back out of the deal.

Not sure why. He’s lost SO MUCH MONEY and reputation seems like he’d have been better off not going through with the purchase.

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Post by user3939382 »

ahahahahah wrote: post #105
ModernMech wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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The white house wasn't even doing the same. The fbi was pointing out tweets that violated Twitter's rules and suggesting that they evaluate them but that it was totally up to Twitter about what to do. The white house was pointing out tweets that embarrassed or otherwise hurt Trump's feelings and demanding that Twitter take them down

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