Twitter Ends Free Access to API, Limiting Tools, Bots and Research Projects That Use Platform’s Public Data The social media platform posted the announcement late Wednesday on the official ...

Twitter's decision to end its free API access have drawn criticism from researchers working on topics ranging from healthcare to hate speech.

Late Wednesday night, the official Twitter Developer account announced the platform will stop offering free access to the platform’s API (Application Programming Interface) on February 9.

Twitter announced it will cut free access to its API services, a move which will effectively end many of the site's third-party accessibility tools.

After weeks of stalling, Twitter finally announced its new API price structures: Free, $100 per month basic, and enterprise.

The rapid change in policy will cause difficulties for some European Union-funded projects, whose proposals were written with the assumption that API access would remain free, says Ünver.

Twitter to stop free API access - What does this mean and will it affect users? Twitter has announced that its application programming interface would go behind a paywall from next week.

Twitter seems to have officially cut off free access to its API, even for developers willing to pay the exorbitant cost of the paid version.