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Nothing specific to announce at the moment, but yes, that's the direction that we refer to in the blog post - a new developer portal that would enable you to scale via tiered pricing in the future (but that remains free to use for standard access).
do the current rate limits constitute standard access?
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That's a really good piece of feedback that I'll be sure to pass along. In terms of plans and pricing, we're not yet announcing those details, but stay tuned as the new APIs we reference in the two blog posts today mature. We'll continue to offer free access to the APIs as well.
Will the free Search API have lower rate limits than they are currently?
Bummer that it's all webhooks. They're pretty fragile. It'd be much nicer if Twitter had some kind of streaming API that you could connect to with a sequence number and get any messages that you might have missed, or at least any that they still have. Basically, Kafka over Websockets would be ideal.
It would be a good thing if, with this announcement, Twitter made a commitment for how this would have a support for the future. Like "this will be available for x months/years, you can make x requests per minute/hour/day, you can buy a plan offering x for $x dollars" and so on. Yes, that can limit some better offer in the future? Perhaps. But that make things more stable, and people would commit more to twitter. Can…
That's a really good piece of feedback that I'll be sure to pass along. In terms of plans and pricing, we're not yet announcing those details, but stay tuned as the new APIs we reference in the two blog posts today mature. We'll continue to offer free access to the APIs as well.
Hey, looks like it will finally be possible to send pictures in DMs from 3rd party clients... can someone please confirm?