bitsandbooks t1_jc1wq0k wrote on March 13, 2023 at 1:20 PM

Reply to 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

> Twitter did not respond to a request for comment.

Yeah, probably because they laid off whoever was doing PR.

mikey-likes_it t1_jc1wgby wrote on March 13, 2023 at 1:18 PM

Reply to 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

Musk trying to tank his own company

yukeake t1_jc1vmxy wrote on March 13, 2023 at 1:11 PM

Reply to comment by Westfakia 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

Any sort of social research that isn't extremely time-sensitive could make use of week-old data. Academia is the big one, though, as they're always cash-strapped and there's no way they could afford thousands of dollars a month.

tyler1128 t1_jc1vmhb wrote on March 13, 2023 at 1:11 PM

Reply to comment by pilat909 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

I do wonder the legality of offering a side market for buying twitter data scraped from what the website freely gives you. I'm sure those "hacker" forums still sell sock proxy lists on the daily. That plus beautiful soup and not being stupid in how you do it should be both a weekend prototype level project, and pretty cheap. It's been a while since I've done something like that, but socks proxies are a dime a dozen more or less. Now, you are probably utilizing hacked servers, but you aren't hacking them so pleading ignorance would probably do just fine. Plus, Twitter is hardly capable of keeping running now, not sure their scraper detection is exactly "state of the art".

joeefx t1_jc1uevx wrote on March 13, 2023 at 1:01 PM

Reply to 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

Twitter is descending into a racist, conspiracy content-filled cesspool.

MammothJust4541 t1_jc1towy wrote on March 13, 2023 at 12:54 PM

Reply to The UK is banning TikTok on government devices — joining the US, Canada, and the EU — despite a charm offensive dubbed 'Project Clover,' report says by chrisdh79

There is no difference between a government device and a personal device for politicians you fools.

apostroangel t1_jc1srri wrote on March 13, 2023 at 12:46 PM

Reply to 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

It's like paying half a million dollars to study and insane asylum where everyone says the same thing they said yesterday.

DevAway22314 t1_jc1scwh wrote on March 13, 2023 at 12:42 PM

Reply to comment by __nickelbackfan__ 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

It sounds like the goal is to get rid of and/or discredit independent research

No one will pay it, so research will die down. Some woll use scrapers, but then he can just claim they're inaccurate because they aren't "official" results from the API

DevAway22314 t1_jc1s793 wrote on March 13, 2023 at 12:41 PM

Reply to comment by OHMG69420 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

10 Doge

I'm kinda kidding, kinda referencing the fact he actually suggested that

Westfakia t1_jc1r8lo wrote on March 13, 2023 at 12:32 PM

Reply to comment by noobgolang 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

Good for whom?

Giving preferential treatment to financial companies based on means alone isn’t going to benefit anyone except the people at the top, who will continue to work to widen the gap between them and everyone else.

aaOzymandias t1_jc1qbgy wrote on March 13, 2023 at 12:23 PM

Reply to comment by GrouchyDirection7201 in Spotify's redesign isn't going down well - why are so many apps going for the same look? by dfgooner

Spotify should play music, not hold my attention. It is shit design.

landwomble t1_jc1q283 wrote on March 13, 2023 at 12:21 PM

Reply to The UK is banning TikTok on government devices — joining the US, Canada, and the EU — despite a charm offensive dubbed 'Project Clover,' report says by chrisdh79

Every time I read one of these stories I want to know WHY THE FUCK these orgs aren't applying mobile device management policies to gov devices to control what is installed on them. It's easy, they have the tooling already, just TURN IT ON.

Clewis22 t1_jc1ojzw wrote on March 13, 2023 at 12:06 PM

Reply to 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

Looks like a way of removing access to the API entirely without formally doing it.

OHMG69420 t1_jc1o6kb wrote on March 13, 2023 at 12:02 PM

Reply to comment by pilat909 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

How much does a tweet cost? $10? - Musk probably

jj_888_ t1_jc1mjbj wrote on March 13, 2023 at 11:44 AM

Reply to 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

I support these prices. Hell - make it 1M/day. I look forward to the day twitter ceases to exists.

303Redirect t1_jc1jxuz wrote on March 13, 2023 at 11:15 AM

Reply to comment by Hrmbee 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

I was thinking the same thing. He's gutting safety teams, saying safety is just as important as ever, and in the same motion making it harder for people to verify that.

nickelbackfan t1_jc1jl4v wrote on March 13, 2023 at 11:11 AM

Reply to comment by moses420bush 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

yup

and lil ol' Musky now wants to charge half a million / year for this pathetic amount of data

web scrappers ftw

noobgolang t1_jc1jesg wrote on March 13, 2023 at 11:08 AM

Reply to comment by londons_explorer 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

Hey this is good idea

Puzzleheaded_Read959 t1_jc1irak wrote on March 13, 2023 at 11:00 AM

Reply to comment by pilat909 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

Elon is going to buy Microsoft next so he can get GitHub to take down the scraper.

Elon logic.

londons_explorer t1_jc1g3ee wrote on March 13, 2023 at 10:25 AM

Reply to 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

There are many companies who would be willing to pay far more than this for the data.

Things like investment firms who want to know what is going on and react in real time.

The real solution is to have a delayed data feed - everything more than a week old is available for free. If you want data 15 mins delayed, pay $$. If you want data 1 second delayed, pay $$$$. If you want data immediately, pay $$$$$$$$.