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 may see on this instance, subscribers will now have the choice to pay a one-off charge to entry extra posts in the event that they want. Which might assist these engaged on analysis initiatives and people who want sudden expansions of their entry.
As per X:
“Now you can buy a cap improve that can assist you to GET extra posts (FKA Tweets) through the X API v2. Please notice that Fundamental and Professional are capped at 10 and 5 Prime-Ups per cycle, respectively.”
Sure, they nonetheless notice “FKA Tweets”. Which is smart, as that’s what many builders and methods nonetheless affiliate with the app, however it’s one other reminder of the hasty re-brand that X carried out final 12 months.
X elevated the value of its API entry a 12 months in the past, which has since priced many third get together instruments out of the market, resulting from considerably increased prices of entry.
Ostensibly, the upper prices have been designed to restrict AI corporations from taking X information, and coaching their fashions on such (particularly OpenAI). However on the identical time, X is seeking to generate extra income any method it might probably, as many advertisers stay cautious of Elon Musk’s undertaking.
The present Fundamental X API bundle, priced at $100 per 30 days, offers customers learn entry to 10,000 posts every month, whereas the Professional bundle, at $5,000 per 30 days, helps you to entry 1,000,000 X posts throughout the identical interval.
Examine that to the earlier Twitter API pricing, by which its top-level Premium bundle price round $2,899 per 30 days for a lot of builders, and you may get a way of why many have struggled to transition to the brand new system, and in lots of instances, have merely deserted their apps as a substitute.
X has been seeking to facilitate extra use instances, with variable pricing and packages, with this new possibility being the newest within the platform’s efforts to keep up reference to crucial developer communities.
And it’ll assist, and it’ll be fascinating to see whether or not it additionally helps X generate extra information entry income, as extra platforms look to increase their entry.
