UnkleRinkus t1_jc2hwiy wrote
Reply to comment by mecha_flake in Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data by Hrmbee
They will rate limit the number of queries coming from a given IP address. Then someone will develop an agent that will support crowd sourcing this across thousands of users, and then either Twitter's servers will hopefully crumble under the load or their AWS bills will skyrocket, either of which will accelerate the fall.
Elon is about to discover the Streisand effect.
mecha_flake t1_jc2muq0 wrote
Exactly. Either give people a way to do what they are trying to do or they will find a much less desirable path forward.
tundey_1 t1_jc2yo43 wrote
Also, Elmo doesn't have that many developers to spare. He's starting a costly war that he doesn't have the resources to fight. Kinda like what a person who refuses to pay his bills and would rather be sued by the King of England!
Amaranthine t1_jc558ao wrote
I already see “Rate Limit Exceeded” in the official Twitter iOS app lmao. I’m sure it’s much easier to get around this using a normal browser, but it’s probably going to be made more and more annoying over time -_-
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