ANATOLY IVANOV / PROSE / 2023-08-24

$100 TO READ AND BACKUP MY OWN TWEETS. PER MONTH.

by Anatoly IVANOV

SOCIAL MEDIA / WEB DESIGN / OUTSIDE NEWS / REVIEWS

Oh, now Twitter asks me to pay 100 USD per month to read and backup my own tweets on my server.

Since early July 2023, I can no longer GET my own posts, sort them into 3 distinct languages and store them in my own SQL DB. Cross-referenced with tags and all. Automatically. Once a day. Just in case… something like a rather hysterical purchase happens.

The internet has become a collection of pay-to-play resources for the rich, if you combine all the monthly fees. How much do you pay after summing it all up?

And the Developers / API site remains broken…

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