After $1,000 uproar, Twitter says to provide free write-only API to ‘good’ bots

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Sunday mentioned that the microblogging platform will allow a free write-only Application Programming Interface (API) for bots offering good content material.

“Responding to suggestions, Twitter will allow a light-weight, write-only API for bots offering good content material that’s free,” he tweeted.

Last week, Twitter introduced that it’ll cease providing free entry to its API from February 9 and as an alternative launch a paid model.

The Twitter Developer account introduced in a collection of tweets that the corporate can be discontinuing help for each the legacy v1.1 and the brand new v2 of its Twitter APIs.

“Starting February 9, we are going to now not help free entry to the Twitter API, each v2 and v1.1. A paid primary tier can be accessible as an alternative,” the Twitter Developer account tweeted.

“Over the years, a whole lot of thousands and thousands of individuals have despatched over a trillion tweets, with billions extra each week,” it added.

Meanwhile, Twitter has instructed companies to pay $1,000 monthly for retaining gold badges and types and organisations which don’t pay the cash will lose their checkmarks.

The Elon Musk-run firm, which is busy monetising its platform by means of numerous means, will even cost an additional $50 monthly to add badges to every account affiliated with the model, studies The Information.

(With inputs from IANS)