Today we are launching our new Twitter API access tiers

$100 / month for 50k POSTs sounds reasonable-ish, until you realize it's limited to 3k tweets per user / month and most helpful bots have a single user.

Take ChatGPTBot, for example, an OSS bot which I run that has over 100k followers. It's very simple but super helpful; mention the bot with a prompt and it responds with a response from ChatGPT. Each response uses 3 POSTS (1 image, 1 alt text, 1 tweet), and remember it's only 3k tweets per user / month.

So ChatGPTBot for $100 / month could effectively only respond to *1 tweet per hour*.

That's insane for the price and will kill all open source innovation around Twitter.

I hope this type of use case gets addressed soon, but imho the damage to trust in Twitter's developer community is already done either way.

Who would trust them enough to build a product based on an API with a record of shutting down without notice?

Honestly, I doubt tweetbot and similar apps will return.