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by dier 1173 days ago
This post is more than a month old. Twitter announced pricing tiers yesterday (March 29). From the first link on the blog post:

> Today we are launching new Twitter API access tiers! We’re excited to share more details about our new plans and what you should expect in terms of next steps and timeline.

> Free: For write-only use cases and testing the Twitter API (1,500 Tweets per month)

> $100: For hobbyists or students learning code (50,000 Tweets per month - posting limit at the app level)

> Current access plans including Standard (v1.1), Essential (v2), Elevated (v2), and Premium will be deprecated over the next 30 days, so we recommend that you migrate to the new tiers as soon as possible for a smooth transition. Any non-migrated developer accounts will be impacted by April 29th, 2023 at the latest.

It's not unmaintained. They were just putting it behind a pay wall.
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jehb 1173 days ago
> $100: For hobbyists or students learning code (50,000 Tweets per month - posting limit at the app level)

Students being famously known for spending three figures a month on hobby API access. /s

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bdcravens 1173 days ago
If you have an app that sends out one tweet a minute, that strikes me as a bit more than a hobby.
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Avshalom 1173 days ago
or one read a month.
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SCdF 1173 days ago
> $100: For hobbyists or students learning code

That pricing has real "I mean what could a banana cost, $10?" energy. What student or hobbyist is going to pay $100/month for fucking twitter access?

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TrackerFF 1172 days ago
Not to defend twitter here, but it's not that far out if you're a grad or Ph.D student working on some project for your thesis or whatever - especially if you can get the money refunded.

A collegue of mine is writing his Masters thesis part time on deep learning, and he's paying around $30-$50/month for cloud computing

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hn_20591249 1173 days ago
Unmaintained and putting up a pay-wall are not mutually exclusive. Sounds like they are going to layer a new pricing model on-top and leave it at that.
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snarfed 1172 days ago
OP here. Sure, they finally anounced the new pricing, months late, but all of the evidence in the post that it's effectively unmaintained still stands. The hostile new pricing just adds to the lack of support in convincing me not to waste any more of my time developing for it.
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pradn 1173 days ago
It looks its still possible to write a tweetbot within the free tier. That's good, I've been meaning to for a long time.
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humanizersequel 1172 days ago
A very limited class of tweetbot that requires only write access.
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pradn 1172 days ago
My idea was to: 1) Set up a public Git repo on GitHub with a list of quotes. 2) Set up a Cloud Function to execute once a day. This function will read the list and post the quote for the day.

This is super simple - no server required, and all free. I think the work here would be to come up with good sets of quotes. For example, I found a list of idioms in the Telugu proverbs. The book would require some sort of image processing to find quote boundaries, and to cut those out. I'd have to learn how to upload images via the API as well.

https://archive.org/details/collectionoftelu00mwca

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