• fsk@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It is insanely high, when their actual cost for 500 API calls should be $0.001 or less.

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        My girlfriend, who has been somewhat on the fence about the protests (just because she’s a more casual user and has never had any issues with the official app), absolutely balked at that number and I think that singlehandedly changed her mind about the API changes.

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        1 year ago

        Typo? This Ars article claims it’s $12k per 50M calls and Christian’s original post has $0.24 per 1000 calls listed, which adds up.

        The price they gave was $0.24 for 1,000 API calls. I quickly inputted this in my app, and saw that it was not far off Twitter’s outstandingly high API prices, at $12,000, and with my current usage would cost almost $2 million dollars per month, or over $20 million per year.