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Twitter rolls out three new tiers for API access

Twitter has announced new details to access its API, and it’s leading to headaches for some.

As a recap, the company pulled the once-free Application Programming Interface (API), which lets third parties use public data from Twitter, on February 2nd.

The re-vamped version offers developers three tiers.

Free allows for write-only use cases with 1,500 tweets a month at no cost. Basic has 3,000 monthly tweets at the user level or 50,000 tweets on the app at $100 USD/month (about $135 CAD).

Enterprise offers “managed services, complete streams, and access that meets your specific needs,” the Twitter Dev account announced without specifying a price. However, some sources say it could cost upwards of $42,000 a month USD (nearly $57,000 CAD).

As The Verge reports, the new tiers mean some developers will have to end their projects. Luca Hammer, the developer behind Accountanlaysis, a tool that lets users evaluate Twitter accounts, said he would shut down his operations.

Twitter will shut down older tier versions “over the next 30 days.”

Source: Twitter Via: The Verge 

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API change causes Twitter functions to go down

Twitter suffered a major outage on the morning of Monday, March 6th. During the outage, links and images stopped working across the social media platform on mobile apps and the Twitter website.

Clicking on Twitter links resulted in an error page that read, “Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information.”

According to DownDetector, the outage began roughly at 11:27am ET/8:27pm PT, and peaked at roughly 12:12pm ET/9:12pm ET.

Around 12:40 is when service seemed to have resumed, with links and images working as intended.

This comes soon after Twitter went down earlier this month, where users could not publish new Tweets and send or receive direct messages (DMs).

Twitter has confirmed that it made an internal change that had “some unintended consequences,” which caused the outage on the platform. However, the company is currently working on fixing the problem and has promised to provide updates when the issue is resolved. In a follow up tweet, the company said that “things should now be working as normal.”

In a Tweet reply, Twitter CEO Elon Musk chimed in too, saying that “A small API change had massive ramifications. The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason.” He added, “Will ultimately need a complete rewrite,” referring to the code.

Is Twitter still wonky for you? Let us know in the comments below.

Source: @TwitterSupport