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Twitter API v1 Free Tier

Paywalled Verified social Twitter — Verified
You had powered bots, scrapers, dashboards, and tiny art projects with a shrug. Then the invoice arrived before the funeral flowers did.

You had offered low-friction access to tweets and social graphs before paid tiers abruptly replaced the old free path.

Evidence

news Announced

This source records when Twitter API v1 Free Tier stopped being meaningfully free and what changed in pricing or access.

Source

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23581532/twitter-free-api-access-developer-api

Archived docs

https://web.archive.org/web/20230101000000/https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api

Contributor note

One overnight price change killed more side projects than any bug I ever shipped.

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