FamousSuccess t1_jc290co wrote on March 13, 2023 at 2:52 PM

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

I was thinking the same. API being closed will now shift a huge proportion of querying to scraping. They'll definitely see an uptick in server loads.

Funny enough it would not shock me to see Twitter scale down their server/hardware to mirror their expected data demands as a result. But I could see this back firing pretty quickly when a couple github projects find their way to mainstream and near-plugin ready twitter scrapers are slamming the site 24/7

Going to be interesting to watch play out

mecha_flake t1_jc29ws6 wrote on March 13, 2023 at 2:58 PM

I don't play the market, but watching Elmo do something stupid with Twitter and then watching how it affects $TSLA has become a new hobby.