Elon Musk Ends Twitter’s Free API and the social network is once again in complete chaos. Yes, we have spent several weeks in which Twitter has become a synonym for complete lack of control. Now the problem is with the bots and not the users, since when they lose access to this API they stop working correctly.
The measure is not new and, in fact, Elon Musk announced that the Twitter API would no longer be free on February 9 of this year. The date was pushed back a total of two times, but in the end no one can escape their fate and the day has come. The API is dead, at least the free one, so all the bots created by the community are useless today.
Why has Elon Musk done this? The answer is much simpler than it seems: money. Twitter has not been the best investment of the South African tycoon, in fact, we could consider that it has been one of his most controversial and questionable actions. The poor management has led the social network to touch limits of lowness never seen before.
Elon Musk’s plan that accompanies the completion of a free API is accompanied by the launch of a paid API. Yes, what Musk is looking for is that the companies or users that have developed bots pay Twitter to have them active and working as they have been up to now on the social network.
Twitter offers two options to bots: pay or die
Elon Musk’s decision to shut down the Twitter API has been met with complaints from users and developers. On the social network there is a huge number of bots that carry out the most interesting tasks and that, until now, were useful tools for users who frequent Twitter.
Now everything has changed, users lose tools that they use in their day to day and companies are also affected. In fact, the loss of the free API has caused several companies to report problems to be able to send automated messages or, for example, link newsletters to the publications of your tweets.
The shutdown of Twitter’s free API will have a significant impact on the way businesses and users use the platform. Elon Musk is hell-bent on making changes on the social network that nobody has asked for and, unfortunately, it seems that nobody can stop him from breaking his new toy that is Twitter.
