Cash-strapped Twitter to start charging developers for API access next week

Twitter cutting off free access to its API will block research, kill fun bots.

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[IncorrigibleTroll]

How does this benefit Twitter? How does the small amount of income, overcome the functionality lose? How does this drive engagement/interaction with Twitter? Why is this the "Smart" business move? I'm very confused.

Eliminating Twitter's value proposition is the only way to increase Twitter's value. It's just basic arithmetic: 1 - 1 = 2.

 

[IncorrigibleTroll]

It's like he's decided to try to throw twitter at the ground as hard as possible and hoping that it misses and achieves orbit instead.

Missing the ground is the essential secret of flight, after all.

 

[IncorrigibleTroll]

I remember people 10 years ago comparing Musk to our generation's Edison. I guess at least he's just killing a website and not electrocuting stray dogs now that he's in his evil villain stage.

I take it that you missed the Neuralink news?

 

[IncorrigibleTroll]

Your mom.

Wait, are we doing your mom jokes here now? Because I am there for it.

 

[IncorrigibleTroll]

Yeah, maybe not the most appropriate phrase for that usage but really I'm just regretting not going with "Novak Djoko-chip cookies and Steph Curry Chicken"

Hindsight is a harsh mistress.

 

[IncorrigibleTroll]

I'm going to miss the Yoko Ono Bot:

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That isn’t actually Yoko?