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So long, Twitter API, and thanks for all the fish
Well, it’s come to this. Twitter is burning, a billionaire owes money, an API will soon get lobotomized, so Bridgy‘s Twitter support
will die within the monthis dead. Granary‘s and twitter-atom too. The Twitter API may now be effectively unmaintained, but they still managed to find an engineer somewhere to change a few numbers in the billing code and update some text on a web page.What a waste. Plenty of ink has been spilled on all this already, I won’t belabor the point, but what an utter waste.
Right now, Bridgy uses a free tier of Twitter’s API, equivalent to what many other major social networks offer. By April 29th, this free tier will disappear. My options will be a $100/mo plan with a quota of 10k tweets/mo, roughly .1% of what Bridgy currently uses, or an enterprise plan with unknown quota that reportedly starts at $42k/mo.
Neither of these options is feasible. Bridgy can’t function with .1% of its current usage, and I won’t pay Twitter $500k/yr for a little side project.
The silver lining is, after all the chaos and destruction and flight to the fediverse, Twitter doesn’t feel nearly as important now as it did half a year ago. It’s always been Bridgy’s biggest user base, it had a great 11-year run, I never quite expected it to end like this, but here we are.
To everyone who used it, thank you for your interest and support over the years! It’s been a great ride. And who knows, Elon’s Twitter 2.0 is awful at comms and changes its plans all the time, so there’s a chance they’ll take this all back tomorrow. But assuming it sticks, Bridgy Twitter
will stop working on April 29, if not before. I plan to leave it up and running until then.got unceremoniously suspended on April 4th. So much for the month’s notice.A billionaire owes money, Twitter is burning, and the future is the IndieWeb and the fediverse. Try out Mastodon with Bridgy, classic or Fed, and join us there!
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