Twitter Replaces Its Free API , With a Paid Tier.<br />The Verge reports that the announcement was made by the Twitter Development account on Feb. 1. .<br />The Verge reports that Twitter's Application Programming Interface (API) "allows third parties <br />to retrieve and analyze public Twitter data.".<br />This data can then help to create programmable <br />bots and applications that interact with the <br />platform, like Pikaso and Thread Reader.<br />The Verge reports that once Twitter's API access is no longer free, many bots and other tools will likely either need to charge a fee or shut down.<br />The change will also affect students and scientists who study online behavior and collect data for research papers on the platform.<br />Many took to Twitter to express their disappointment with the new paid tier. .<br />Wow....a whole week's notice. For a whole bunch of people who use your service, developers who have built products that support your service, you gave them a week's notice. This is just straight terrible leadership, @dougblackjr/Twitter.<br />Next week, there won't be a free Twitter API anymore. As a result, I will stop any work on non-commercial projects that use the API and will have to re-evaluate which commercial projects are still feasible, @luca/Twitter.<br />This change will destroy research, activism and commercial projects, @luca/Twitter
