RIP, free Twitter API.
Wednesday that it will shut off access to its free application programming interface and begin charging for third parties to retrieve and analyze public Twitter data—a tragedy that surely will diminish Twitter’s value to many people.
APIs provide a common language that lets programs talk to one another. On a platform like Twitter, it lets people send code to Twitter that tells it to post to an account, or asks it to respond with data.
—ironically, a trend that will be harder to analyze in the future now that the platform is making this change. But it’s not surprising; what else can you say about a decision that results in tweets like, “This change may mean the end of the
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