Twitter said today that it's shutting down free access to its APIs from February 9. Devs won't be able to access both the v2 and v1.1.

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Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9. Twitter Developer account said the firm will be ending support for both v1.1 and v2 of its API. The move follows Twitter suspending an API in recent weeks that was used by many popular clients such as Tweetbot and Twitterrific.

Twitter to end free access to its API

Wait, what about my apps running on that api, will they cease to work

The news is likely to come as a shock to many Twitter app publishers 😳, but I have always believed that the Twitter API has resulted in a loss in their Ads business!
This change not only can generate new revenue for Twitter but will have a huge boost for their Ads business too 🤯

It would have been nice for them to have given those using this API a little more heads up.

Wow, twitter is going through so many changes. I was hoping “Open Source” and “Open API” would be a norm in the near future.