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Twitter has reinstated free API access for verified government accounts and publicly owned services to continue dishing out important updates on weather, transport, or emergency issues.
In a recent tweet, Twitters development team revealed the decision of the company to reinstate government and publicly owned services, after it ended free access to its basic API in early February and launched a threetier paid version.
Announcing this development, it wrote, One of the most important use cases for the Twitter API has always been public utility.
He later launched the increase in the price of Twitter API access last month, with many organizations and developers who had previously been able to access Twitter connectivity for free now being asked to pay 40 k per month for similar access.
The strategy to introduce a paid basic API plan was Musks intention to monetize the platform as much as possible.
Also, Microsoft dropped Twitter from its advertising platform, meaning that its users will no longer be able to access their accounts, create and manage tweets.
Just recently, content management and website creation tool WordPress ended its Jetpack plugin for autosharing tweets, citing Twitters decision to dramatically change the terms and pricing of its API.
Meanwhile, several bigger business apps have already paid in full Twitters API access, such as Hootsuite and your Sprout Socials.