New Twitter API access tiers: Free (v2) and Basic (v2)

This is a dupe of an earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35365932

Announcement thread: https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1641222782594990080

Twitter community: https://twittercommunity.com/t/announcing-new-access-tiers-f...

As expected, this blows.

To have any read access at all, you need to pay $100/month - which currently is totally free with very generous rate limit. And the old $100/month tier, IIRC, has something like 2M, compared to current 10k.

It basically kills any hobby projects. I personally have one (that is only used by myself) to just backup tweets from some public accounts. Guess no more.

I expect lots of scraping tools would be developed/updated (they already exist of course, but using API is far more easier to use (manually or with things like Tweepy) and it can gives you a very detailed object for each tweet).