Twitter Ends Free Access to API, Limiting Tools, Bots and Research Projects That Use Platform’s Public Data The social media platform posted the announcement late Wednesday on the official ...

Twitter's decision to end its free API access have drawn criticism from researchers working on topics ranging from healthcare to hate speech.

Twitter will start charging for access to their free API from February 9, meaning third-party software developers who access API data to promote their own projects, like bots on the app, will only ...

Starting next week, Twitter will begin charging for access to the Twitter API—its latest money-making gambit under the leadership of owner Elon Musk. The announcement came late Wednesday night ...

Twitter announced it will cut free access to its API services, a move which will effectively end many of the site's third-party accessibility tools.

In February of this year Elon Musk put Twitter’s API behind a paywall. A new survey reveals that over a 100 projects were impacted as a result.

The API is also crucial for programming automated accounts, i.e. Twitter bots—which Musk waged a public war against in his one-time efforts to back out of his offer to buy the platform.

Another free Twitter feature is getting monetized under Elon Musk's leadership, and some people are lamenting the end of one of the site's fun features.