Twitter’s plan to raise the fee for its Decahose data streaming service from free to use to $42,000 per month could have serious implications for the global research community.
Since Elon Musk bought Twitter and took the company private, the news around the platform has been rife with verification chaos, API access shakeups, ban reversals and layoffs.
Twitter announced a new API tier today called Twitter API Pro for startups that costs $5,000 per month. The tier gives developers the ability to fetch 1 million tweets per month and post 300,000 tweets per month.