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However, the consequences of removing the open API will be far broader than simply these applications. Twitter’s bots — the automated accounts that publish anything from weather updates to useful reminders, jokes, and emergency warnings — face an unclear future. Although Musk has stated that certain bots providing “excellent” content may be allowed to use the Twitter API for free, it’s unclear how this would operate or if paying for Twitter Blue will be required. So far, a number of bot creators have said that they would not pay for the usage of Twitter’s API and that their accounts will be deactivated on September 9th.
The API changes will be bad for the research community as well. Nowadays, hundreds of journalists, organisations, and academic institutions utilise Twitter’s API to investigate disinformation, public health, education, and a variety of other concerns. Forcing these researchers to pay might essentially put a stop to these programmes, especially for smaller and less well-funded institutes. For the time being, it is unclear if these groups will have any other choices.
