Yeah, free API is being abused badly right now by bot scammers & opinion manipulators. There’s no verification process or cost, so easy to spin up 100k bots to do bad things. Just ~$100/month for API access with ID verification will clean things up greatly.

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This won’t affect the spammy malicious bots (maybe 1% of the bots, other 99% will be the same). Malicious tweet/reply bots exploit the client API to auto tweet, they don’t use the dev API. So this won’t hurt them at all. Ironically, this will hurt the “good” bots more.

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Err yes it will solve large parts of the problem.

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This is a great move. Another option might be to rate limit the API for free accounts to something crazy small so people can’t use it at scale for free. Freemium. Or possibly a sandbox mode for experiments.

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There has to be consideration for those building ideas that don’t have ~$100 a month for personal projects. In killing the bots like this Elon is taking out emerging ideas too.

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I feel like the bad actors will still get around by abusing Twitter’s private API (the one the official apps use)

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They’ll also go one step ahead by automating the browser / app interactions Might be worth considering doing reCaptchas on clients of low confident scores when they’re trying to engage

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Do it! Twitter has been improved greatly by whatever you did to deboost the Woke Propaganda bots and human Woke Knight Trolls. I love how they're hidden behind "Click here for more" where they can tweet "Define Woke" all day long and no one sees it. Woke Mind Virus―deboosted

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Way to screw scholars, Elon.

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He has no clue what researchers in the global south are doing (or even that they exist) so he doesn’t know who his decisions affect or how. The “disinformation backyard” as

calls it.

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seems like the replies are some combination of a few valid concerns alongside many hyperbolic hate boners

but that seems to be par for the course for people reacting to every change

parsing through the noise is annoying

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Did you really have to redo this tweet 3 times?

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Great work, Mr. Tweet!

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This would eliminate most early stage products. I feel like you need a free tier tied to usage. Under X MAU is free and then scale with the api usage. Otherwise many dev won’t want to take the risk. It should be free to validate your app is useful. Paid once people are using it.

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Start with verification and $20/month.

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it will not

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Yep

Claudius Nero’s Legion

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Twitter is becoming the most amazing place

…Congratulations, my dear!

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Hey

Our tipping bot

got suspended in the recent Twitter bot purge. It was a good bot and was just used to tip Doge to support content creators on Twitter.

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Nice, that should help a lot! Do it per account too not just single keys and what not.

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Excellent! Keep the focus on cutting out the noise so the marketplace of ideas can flourish.

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$100 a month is so silly when the API was built to be free. ID verification is a good idea. You’re doing this to stop people like Jack Sweeney.

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Can you look into the possibility of a non-bot verification that happens on the backend That way bots can’t get accounts shadowbanned just by mass reporting an account if that verification is checked