X/Twitter is still cracking down on bot networks and closing this prevents outside AI from harvesting and analyzing your Tweets.
These changes to the API (Application Programming Interface) were announced over a year ago.
What's interesting is you can purchase Enterprise API access but it doesn't give you unlimited access even then.
Enterprise — Promises to offer “commercial-level access that meets your and your customer’s specific needs” as well as “managed services [from] a dedicated account team.” No specific price was listed, but Platformer previously reported that a “low-cost enterprise plan” could cost as much as $42,000 a month.
In other words, if you're a big company who can afford to pay, you present a business plan stating exactly what data you need access to and why, and X will assign a dedicated account team who pulls the data on your behalf.
Reddit instituted a similar thing (removing free API access completely in this case) but doesn't charge nearly as much as X.
In April, Reddit announced it would start charging developers for access to its previously free API. The change -- which took effect July 1 -- charges developers 24 cents per 1,000 API requests. This adds up fast. Applications such as Apollo can make more than 7 billion requests a month, which would end up costing $2 million a month. This is unsustainable for some third-party developers.
Twitter had a hard time even breaking even before Elon took over because they essentially were providing data to outside corporations free of charge in spite of the costs to store and transmit said data.
Thanks for the details. Here is the problem I have with twitter blocking Nitter access.
Those public figures who pay twitter, are paying twitter with our tax dollars. TwitX should not be blocking, or restricting any content created by public officials.
I don't have a big problem with TwitX blocking non-public content. But blocking comments from public officials is wrong.
You can register an X/Twitter account and view anything you want until you hit the limits for a personal account, which just isn't going to happen browsing your feed like a normal person would.
If you want to harvest data and use it to make money or collect information on specific accounts, you're going to have to pay for that privilege.
Twitter was propped up by tax dollars (funds from CIA front companies) and by the Saudis and was a huge honeypot as well.
Nothing you post is private. Everything you post is harvested by the feds.
It stops working once the actual X accounts used to harvest the data hit their weekly limits.
The real X accounts used to be a fallback for when guest API access wasn't working but now they're the only reason these instances work at all. The reason why Nitter is dead is guest API access was shut down.
Once those actual X accounts have their limits restored, the instances will start working again until they hit the limit once again.
I had saved nitter links. When I clicked on them, the link was broken. But I found that if I go to nitter and research on someones twitter handle, it does work.
No nitter link?
Nitter doesn't work. Someone told me.
Someone told me there are still some left...
https://nitter.poast.org/a_newsman/status/1762910441976549449
Elon Musk (Mr. Muh Free Speech guy) blocked Nitter from interacting with twitter. Nitter is no more.
X/Twitter is still cracking down on bot networks and closing this prevents outside AI from harvesting and analyzing your Tweets.
These changes to the API (Application Programming Interface) were announced over a year ago.
What's interesting is you can purchase Enterprise API access but it doesn't give you unlimited access even then.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/30/23662832/twitter-api-tiers-free-bot-novelty-accounts-basic-enterprice-monthly-price
In other words, if you're a big company who can afford to pay, you present a business plan stating exactly what data you need access to and why, and X will assign a dedicated account team who pulls the data on your behalf.
Reddit instituted a similar thing (removing free API access completely in this case) but doesn't charge nearly as much as X.
In April, Reddit announced it would start charging developers for access to its previously free API. The change -- which took effect July 1 -- charges developers 24 cents per 1,000 API requests. This adds up fast. Applications such as Apollo can make more than 7 billion requests a month, which would end up costing $2 million a month. This is unsustainable for some third-party developers.
https://www.techtarget.com/WhatIs/feature/Reddit-pricing-API-charge-explained
Twitter had a hard time even breaking even before Elon took over because they essentially were providing data to outside corporations free of charge in spite of the costs to store and transmit said data.
Thanks for the details. Here is the problem I have with twitter blocking Nitter access.
Those public figures who pay twitter, are paying twitter with our tax dollars. TwitX should not be blocking, or restricting any content created by public officials.
I don't have a big problem with TwitX blocking non-public content. But blocking comments from public officials is wrong.
You can register an X/Twitter account and view anything you want until you hit the limits for a personal account, which just isn't going to happen browsing your feed like a normal person would.
If you want to harvest data and use it to make money or collect information on specific accounts, you're going to have to pay for that privilege.
Twitter was propped up by tax dollars (funds from CIA front companies) and by the Saudis and was a huge honeypot as well.
Nothing you post is private. Everything you post is harvested by the feds.
Huh. When did that happen?
A few weeks back
https://greatawakening.win/p/17sP1kZaNf/to-whom-it-may-concern-nitter-is/c/
Try this. This nitter instance worked for awhile, stopped working and now works again - until it gets clobbered by tptb again.
https://nitter.poast.org/a_newsman/status/1762910441976549449
It stops working once the actual X accounts used to harvest the data hit their weekly limits.
The real X accounts used to be a fallback for when guest API access wasn't working but now they're the only reason these instances work at all. The reason why Nitter is dead is guest API access was shut down.
Once those actual X accounts have their limits restored, the instances will start working again until they hit the limit once again.
Thank you for that explanation. I had no idea of the mechanism behind this on-off-on behavior. Makes sense.
I thought Nitter was going away?
Me too, but it still works.
I had saved nitter links. When I clicked on them, the link was broken. But I found that if I go to nitter and research on someones twitter handle, it does work.
For example: https://nitter.privacydev.net/Matt_Bracken48