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The new @TwitterAPI Basic Access for $100 per month got added in to the Dev Portal, and it's absolutely miserly. 10,000 Tweet Monthly cap on Search & Stream That was previously 2,000,000. Endpoints that had hundreds of calls per 15 minutes now have barely dozens. It's useless.
@TwitterAPI The Current Limits Vs the New $100 Basic Limits: POST /2/tweets: (This used to be the most complicated) Was 2400 / 24 hours total, or 300 in 3 hours, or 200 in 15 min, or whatever the spam filter decided, but you generally could tweet a lot. Now: 50 requests / 24 hours
@TwitterAPI DELETE /2/tweets: Was: 50 / 15 minutes Now: 5 / 15 mins in paid Basic, and 50 requests / 24 hours in free. GET /2/users/me: Was: 75 / 15 minutes (7200 / 24 hours) Now: 250 / 24 hours in Basic and 25 / 24 hours in Free
@TwitterAPI That's all the Free endpoints. I should mention: 50 requests / 24 hours for posting tweets is the Free limit, in Paid Basic access, POST /2/tweets is not listed, so unlimited? Not sure how to read that.
@TwitterAPI The POST rate limits (for things like tweeting, liking, etc) were always restrictive, but that's somewhat understandable. What's really discouraging is the GET rate limits, which will severely hamper any sort of application that actually requires twitter data. For example:
@TwitterAPI GET /2/tweets was massively restricted. Cripples the ability to use old datasets and "hydrate" tweets, looking them up by ID (how they're mostly shared) Was: 900 calls / 15 min per token and 300 / 15 mins per App Now: 15 calls / 15 mins per token and 15 / 15 mins per App
@TwitterAPI Whole thing is just a big Fuck You. Basically they decided to make it so restricted only the most desperate or credulous will pay - it's about as close to shutting off the API as you can get with these limits. It will just have the exact opposite effect: People will scrape now.
@TwitterAPI You got 30 days to wrap up whatever you've been gathering and grab all the data you might need, because afterwards it'll be a very expensive drip feed. https://t.co/8nufrUouHF
@TwitterAPI The Streaming API is dead in the $100 package too, that's Enterprise only. But also: if they're killing v1.1 in 30 days, there's no longer any way to upload any media because v2 API was never updated with that ability, so you had to use v1.1 Media Upload endpoints. 🤡