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As per the previous report, from Feb 9 Twitter will stop providing the Twitter API for free for both v2 and v1.1.
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Also, the Twitter Dev tweet details saying a paid basic tier will be available instead.
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A Twitter user responded to the API change saying Ad revenue must be down. To this DOGE creator, Billy Markus replied “it’s more about raising the friction to make bots
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Elon Musk justified the API change by saying that free API is being abused badly right now by bot scammers & opinion manipulators.
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He added that there’s no verification process or cost, so easy to spin up 100k bots to do bad things.
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On Feb 5, Musk in the same thread detailed that write-only API for bots providing good content that is free.
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Musk's tweet raises numerous questions such as what is good content and whether the policy will apply to future bots or just those already in existence.
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