The New Twitter API Tiers

Going forward, the Twitter API offers two tiers: One is free, write-only and allows bots to post 1,500 times each month. The other costs $100 per month allowing you to send up to 50,000 tweets, capped at 3,000 per user, and to read 10,000 tweets.

These tiers are aimed at preventing third-party Twitter clients, like Twitterific or Tweetbot, from re-emerging. Musk wants you to read Twitter only in official clients so he can control what tweets and ads you see. But contrary to what I wrote before,

The move kills every Twitter bot there is unless their maintainers pay, including those posting links to frequently updated sites, like kottke.org and Daring Fireball,

bots of personal sites shouldn’t be affected by the new pricing. 1,500 tweets per month amount to about 30 tweets per day, which is a lot less than what even the most frequently updated blogs are churning out. If you have more than 30 posts per day on your site you might want to be a little more selective about what you post.