Elon Musk's X further squeezes developers with apparent new API fees

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• emax_gomax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a weird decision to further monetize access to a platform that’s hemorrhaging users and engagement.

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  • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You don’t get it. Because there’s less and less they need to squeeze them even further!

    🧠🧠🧠

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  • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i mean hemorrhaging users and engagement is why they’re trying to monetize whatever they can

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  • yildolw@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe it’s a way to launder dirty money or take bribes, the way solid booking a floor at the Trump Tower for a few months is a way to launder money.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And next week he’ll xeet about suing the developers who leave even though it makes no sense.

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Xitter has served its purpose. After the election he’ll probably ditch it.

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    • Tyfud@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yup. It was bought as a tool to disrupt the next election. In that respect, it’s a hell of a good buy.

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He also likes it so literal children can publicly adore him. Also grooming.

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  do third party twitter developers even exist anymore?

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  • Brewchin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I assume all the bot farms are paying for the privilege.

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• distortwave@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh no. Elon musk don’t ruin Twitter … Oooohh nooo someone stop home from ruining that awful platform…

  Someone please stop him.

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  Who uses Twitter?

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  • CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I used to use it solely for sports news updates. Once Elon bought it, kept constantly getting politics news that I didn’t want. Kept adding blocked terms hoping to not see it anymore. Nope. Kept getting pushed right wing bullshit. Deleted and never looked back. It helps that people have actually moved to Bluesky. The biggest issue I have is with Reddit and Lemmy not having the sports communities here. Game threads for Orioles games had 0 comments. I’m not going to just sit there and post to myself.

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  • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    twitter is a reasonable option to go when looking for Medium to high levels of user toxicity.

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• ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I imagine this is less about making money off developers as it is about making misinformation research cost prohibitive.

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• notannpc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gotta launder that Russian money somehow. Now they can pay him more without having to make as many accounts.

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• jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I used to use Twitter to follow celebs when they dropped performance dates. Now I don’t follow anyone anymore.

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  • Notyou@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Songkick is an app I use to help me track that. You can either put in a city and it’ll tell you who is coming and when. Or you can tell it what artists to track and it will tell you the tour dates, if any. The also track comedians.

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    • jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ohhhhh, thanks man.

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• Rob200@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can’t see how many one is surprised, that a capitalist company Reddit did this api fee, now x is doing it. Capitalist see, capitalist do.

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  • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Didnt twitter do it before reddit?

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    • ryper@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes. Twitter was first, then Reddit, now Twitter is another fee

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  • Rob200@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    With all the bs going on with twitter and reddit at this point for the least two years I don’t know anymore who did what first. It seemed like reddit was doing this around last year and Twitter seems to be following suit now.

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• umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This would have sounding effects on researchers, like mis- and dis-information, as most are still spread there.

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