After Twitter introduced that it was shutting down its free entry to APIs from February 9, Elon Musk tweeted simply days earlier than the deadline that the micro-blogging web site will present a write-only API for “bots offering good content material that’s free”.
In line with Musk, the announcement was made after getting suggestions from builders.
The choice, nevertheless, leaves the query as to what constitutes ‘good content material’, and who will resolve that.
Tech Crunch experiences, that the rule if carried out, would possibly give some bots a brand new lifeline on the social platform.
Twitter had beforehand shut down API entry to third-party apps with the excuse that they’d damaged a “long-standing rule” with none specification.
The corporate additionally up to date its developer phrases in order that the app cannot “use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.”
Builders had been enraged and criticised the corporate for its determination, particularly since their automation offered free content material to individuals and in flip enhanced the companies.
Tech Crunch reported that in keeping with Darius Kazemi, a developer who has remodeled 80 bots and organised bot devs summit in 2016, the bots had been loved by individuals day by day and had been an integral a part of Twitter.
Sustaining the bots at a charge whereas offering free content material could be tough for a lot of.
Twitter’s free API discontinuation will have an effect on not solely builders however college students, researchers and teachers as effectively, as all of them won’t be capable of afford to pay a charge for the content material they want.
