To automate accounts on Twitter, until now third-party developers have relied on the platform’s API. The API (for Application programming interface EITHER Interface apps programming) allows you to use the Twitter interface in particular to create famous automated accounts, such as accounts that follow private jets.
But access to this scheduling tool will be charged starting February 9. Many accounts have already announced that they will cease their activity.
Hundreds of millions of accounts
Through the Twitter API, developers could access a large amount of data. So they were able to set up automatic posts based on predefined events.
Recognized as a true mine of information, the Twitter API has allowed the development of hundreds of millions of accounts. All generating billions of auto posts every week, he says. Twitter Developer.
It is thanks to this device that famous bots can work. Among them, Pikaso allows you to take a screenshot of a tweet. remind me of this tweet sends a notification after a set delay. Finally, color uses artificial intelligence to colorize a black and white image.
Some of these automated accounts already use a paid plan to have more use of the system. As Numerama explains, Twitter offers subscription plans that range from $149 to almost $2,500 per month. These offers allow owners to increase the number of requests made to the API. With the key, more bots worked.
The announced end of many bots
But as IT developer Molly White shows in a post, many accounts announced that they would stop working. Illustrating her point with screenshots, she wrote: “If you want to get an idea of the impact of this change, just look at the quotes in the tweet.”
Many automated accounts shared Twitter Dev’s post announcing the end of free API access. All indicate in their message to end their activity because they do not want to pay to have access to information that was previously freely accessible.
This change is part of Elon Musk’s desire to make Twitter profitable. By monetizing access to the API, the new owner of the platform replicates the strategy set in motion with the certification. It is now granted to all users who have subscribed to Twitter Blue. In order to offset the drop in advertising revenue.
Source: BFM TV
