Musk Twitter’s new API is about opacity

[solarbird]

I said a little while ago that part of the intent at locking down the Twitter API and replacing it with a new one was to lock out people researching things like alt-right propaganda and fashy disinformation. Basically, to make Twitter more opaque, so it can be more manipulative, in the run-up to the 2024 election.

Given the obscenity of the pricing and the massively throttled data in the new pay API, I feel more strongly that I’m correct here. It’s genuinely beyond the ability of basically any research institution to afford, and it’s not even close.

But the extremely wealthy and large governmental organisations? They can afford it, no problem.

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