WordPress Plugin Developers Alerted Ahead of Twitter API Changes
Beginning February 9, 2023, Twitter will turn off free access to its APIs. The company announced yesterday that it will be offering “a paid basic tier” with more details coming next week. Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead — Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) February 2, 2023 In response to a user who conjectured that this move is more about raising the friction to making bots, Elon Musk responded, saying that this is one factor motivating the change. “Yeah, free API is being abused badly right now by bot scammers and opinion manipulators,” Musk said. “There’s no verification process or cost, so easy to spin up 100k bots to do bad things. Just ~$100/month for API access with ID verification will clean things up greatly.” It’s not yet clear how this will effect the Twitter ecosystem, whether it will impact bots that auto-tweet links from blogs and other useful tools. So far it is already affecting some migration tools like Movetodon that rely on the Twitter API to help users find their contacts on Mastodon. Movetodon’s creator said his app’s access was…
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