Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets.

Twitter will start to charge for access to its data-rich API, the company announced on late Wednesday night.

Third-party users and developers have long relied on data obtained through the Twitter API for research projects, information dissemination, as well as popular generative text and image bots.

An API allows a widget like Tweetbot, which helps users switch up and customize their feed, to engage with Twitter’s digital infrastructure, pull data, and work in real time.

Hackers release the user data of 5.4 million Twitter users for free following an API security breach that occurred in July.

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a set of 3,207 mobile apps that are exposing Twitter API keys to the public, potentially enabling a threat actor to take over users' Twitter accounts that ...

Twitter bolsters academic research access to its API Twitter data is being used to research everything from COVID-19 attitudes and perceptions, public discourse and climate change opinions.