3 engineers on Hacker News describe using Twitter API first-hand: 0 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“X: pay-per-use since February. $0.015 per post, $0.20 if the post contains a URL. No free tier. Out of credits, the API answers HTTP 402.”
regret · production · luka5184 · 2026-09-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Twitter worker flawlessly until I hit some limits and there was no way to increase them because I didn't hit some other limits.”
regret · production · herbst · 2024-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“as an implementer of Twitter-based services in production applications: Their recent API changes have had absolutely zero impact on me.”
neutral · production · gavinlynch · 2012-09-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?