{"id":21552,"date":"2018-05-17T15:40:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T19:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21552"},"modified":"2018-06-02T15:19:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T19:19:23","slug":"new-twitter-apis-and-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/17\/new-twitter-apis-and-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"New Twitter APIs and Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Twitter today unveiled new details on its upcoming activity API changes<\/a>, which will affect how third-party apps are able to access Twitter APIs and provide services to Twitter users who prefer to use apps like Twitterrific and Tweetbot.<\/p>\n

Third-party Twitter app developers will be required to purchase a Premium or Enterprise Account Activity API package to access a full set of activities related to a Twitter account[…]<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Twitter says it will be delaying the deprecation of its current APIs for three months to give developers time to transition over to the new platform. These APIs will be deprecated on Wednesday, August 16 instead of June 19, the original date Twitter planned to end support for the APIs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Michael Glenn<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Twitter’s quarterly revenue was $665MM<\/a> or $222MM a month.<\/p>\n

Estimated active users are 267MM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s $0.83 per user per month.<\/p>\n

Why would they think $11.60 per user per month makes any sense?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Chuq Von Rospach<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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In reality, priced to kill third party apps in a way Twitter hopes we blame the apps for.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Sean Heber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It’s looking like it won’t be financially possible for us to afford the new account activity API from twitter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Twitter management obviously wants to steer people to their first-party mobile app and desktop website. I get that. But they already have that: the overwhelming number of Twitter users use exactly those products to access the service.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Twitter isn’t explicitly saying that they’re shutting down third-party clients, but I don’t know that it’s feasible for them to exist if they don’t have access to these APIs. It’s like breaking up with someone by being a jerk to them rather than telling them you’re breaking up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Riccardo Mori<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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What Twitter is doing to 3rd-party developers, is doing it purely out of spite. In the grand scheme of things, the sheer number of people using 3rd-party clients is too small to impact Twitter’s revenue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Chuq Von Rospach<\/a>:<\/p>\n

They are pretty clearly moving to a model where brands and big names announce stuff and their fans listen, and those of us who use it to share info and chatter are inconvenient and in the way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously: Twitter Shutting Down APIs<\/a>, Twitter Abolishes Native Mac Client<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2018-05-18): See also: Manton Reece<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Jan Dawson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The big risk is that Twitter will focus so much on Twitter 2 that it fails to feed Twitter 1. Twitter 1 is the most vocal Twitter, and essentially all the influencers — whether celebrities, power users, or reporters — are in Twitter 1. Ignoring Twitter 1 as the company focuses on Twitter 2 would be a huge mistake, especially because so much of the content consumed by Twitter 2 is provided by Twitter 1. There’s a symbiotic relationship here, and one that Twitter has to be very careful not to disrupt.<\/p>\n

The problem is that Twitter has another goal it’s trying to achieve: monetization. Twitter’s monetization strategy involves serving up ads, which in turn requires that people use Twitter’s own apps or its website to consume those ads. And yet Twitter 1 disproportionately uses third party clients like Tweetbot and Twitterrific. Because of Twitter’s insistence on monetization through advertising, and its general discouragement of clients that replicate the core Twitter experience, it’s started withholding some important features from the API it makes available to third party clients.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Via Nick Lockwood<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This Venn diagram is also equates pretty well with<\/p>\n

Mac vs iOS users<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

Mac\/iOS power users vs ordinary users<\/p>\n

And similarly explains why Apple continues to grow and rake in profits whilst making decisions that frustrate its most vocal and valuable supporters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2018-06-02): See also: Accidental Tech Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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