San Francisco: Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Sunday said the microblogging platform will enable free write-only application programming interfaces (APIs) for bots that provide good content.
“In response to feedback, Twitter will enable a lite, write-only API for bots providing good content, which is free,” he tweeted.
Last week, Twitter announced that it would stop offering free access to its API from February 9 and instead launch a paid version.
The Twitter developer account announced in a series of tweets that the company will be discontinuing support for both the legacy v1.1 and the new v2 of its Twitter API.
The Twitter developer account tweeted, “Starting February 9th, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API for both v2 and v1.1. A paid Basic tier will be available instead.”
It added, “Over the years, hundreds of millions of people have sent more than a trillion tweets, with billions more every week.”
Meanwhile, Twitter has asked businesses to pay $1,000 per month to maintain gold badges and brands and organizations that don’t pay the money will lose their checkmarks.
The Elon Musk-run company, which is busy monetizing its platform through various means, will also charge an additional $50 per month for adding the badge to each account affiliated with the brand, The Information reports.