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do third party twitter developers even exist anymore?
Can't see how many one is surprised, that a capitalist company Reddit did this api fee, now x is doing it. Capitalist see, capitalist do.
Didn’t Reddit do exactly this? Isn’t that why I’m here?
It's a weird decision to further monetize access to a platform that's hemorrhaging users and engagement.
i mean hemorrhaging users and engagement is why they're trying to monetize whatever they can
It's weird to you cause you're not a mega-brain CEO.. if revenue drops, you raise the prices, obviously.
You don’t get it. Because there’s less and less they need to squeeze them even further!
🧠🧠🧠
And next week he'll xeet about suing the developers who leave even though it makes no sense.
Xitter has served its purpose. After the election he'll probably ditch it.
Yup. It was bought as a tool to disrupt the next election. In that respect, it's a hell of a good buy.
This would have sounding effects on researchers, like mis- and dis-information, as most are still spread there, where they use API to aggregate and analyze tweets (or whatever it is called now).
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