Yet another example of how these new Twitter API limits are self-defeating and poorly considered.
A far-sighted Twitter owner would want as many government agencies and news alerts on the platform as possible. The cost giving them API access is dwarfed by the value of making Twitter the place for real-time information. That's the whole point of Twitter.
These agencies provide value to Twitter, not vice versa. Asking them to pay means you don't understand that.
> Since Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform, however, Twitter has put new rules in place that limit the number of automated tweets an account can send without paying. The move was carried out partly as a response to rising concerns artificial intelligence platforms would use the historical archives of social media platforms to train their large language models.
I think the author is conflating, the API limits are not temporary, but the new tweet limit imposed by the app are, and DriveBC specifically said "have exceeded the temporarily imposed post rate limit" - I emailed the author for clarification, but I'm fairly sure he's conflating.
EDIT: I emailed the author and he said it's a mistake - he's updating the article.
This could even be an upsell opportunity by twitter, offer a new “super verified” tier where an account bypasses all rate limits for readers (as well as the writer). This allows a public agency to distribute real time info to the masses for free and Twitter doesn’t take a loss on it.
The way things were done at Twitter really just suggests it wasn’t carefully thought through. The whole point of a business is to make win/win relationships with customers.
Any rate limit scheme should be deployed first in a soft or "warning but disabled" mode. That way you can run it for a while and monitor via logs/metrics what happens. Of course not suitable for impatient people..
A far-sighted Twitter owner would want as many government agencies and news alerts on the platform as possible. The cost giving them API access is dwarfed by the value of making Twitter the place for real-time information. That's the whole point of Twitter.
These agencies provide value to Twitter, not vice versa. Asking them to pay means you don't understand that.