In response to varied requests from builders, X (previously Twitter) is rolling out a new API entry course of, which is able to allow API subscribers to get an additional 10k posts inside a sure threshold each month.
As you possibly can see on this instance, subscribers will now have the choice to pay a one-off price to entry extra posts in the event that they want. Which may assist these engaged on analysis initiatives and people who want sudden expansions of their entry.
As per X:
“Now you can buy a cap enhance that can can help you GET extra posts (FKA Tweets) by way of the X API v2. Please notice that Primary and Professional are capped at 10 and 5 Prime-Ups per cycle, respectively.”
Sure, they nonetheless notice “FKA Tweets”. Which is sensible, as that’s what many builders and programs nonetheless affiliate with the app, however it’s one other reminder of the hasty re-brand that X applied final 12 months.
X elevated the value of its API entry a 12 months in the past, which has since priced many third celebration instruments out of the market, as a consequence of considerably greater prices of entry.
Ostensibly, the upper prices have been designed to restrict AI firms from taking X knowledge, and coaching their fashions on such (particularly OpenAI). However on the identical time, X is seeking to generate extra income any means it could, as many advertisers stay cautious of Elon Musk’s mission.
The present Primary X API package deal, priced at $100 per thirty days, offers customers learn entry to 10,000 posts every month, whereas the Professional package deal, at $5,000 per thirty days, enables you to entry one million X posts throughout the identical interval.
Examine that to the earlier Twitter API pricing, through which its top-level Premium package deal price round $2,899 per thirty days for a lot of builders, and you will get a way of why many have struggled to transition to the brand new system, and in lots of circumstances, have merely deserted their apps as an alternative.
X has been seeking to facilitate extra use circumstances, with variable pricing and packages, with this new choice being the newest within the platform’s efforts to keep up reference to important developer communities.
And it’ll assist, and it’ll be fascinating to see whether or not it additionally helps X generate extra knowledge entry income, as extra platforms look to increase their entry.
