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Stephen Downes

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So I guess Twitter's new pricing tiers for access to the Twitter API were announced last week in a move that this article says will "devastate public interest research." I'm not so sure about that, since I'm not sure how many people will be using Twitter in the long term. And also, I'm not sure what to believe from Twitter's announcements - my blue check is still in place and I would imagine my API will keep functioning, despite what I read from them. This may be because they can't actually implement these policies without wrecking their business, or because they don't know hopw to implement them without crashing the platform.

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