In response to numerous requests from builders, X (previously Twitter) is rolling out a new API entry course of, which is able to allow API subscribers to get an additional 10k posts inside a sure threshold each month.

As you may see on this instance, subscribers will now have the choice to pay a one-off price to entry extra posts in the event that they want. Which might assist these engaged on analysis initiatives and those that want sudden expansions of their entry.

As per X:

“Now you can buy a cap enhance that can assist you to GET extra posts (FKA Tweets) through the X API v2. Please notice that Fundamental and Professional are capped at 10 and 5 Prime-Ups per cycle, respectively.”

Sure, they nonetheless notice “FKA Tweets”. Which is smart, as that’s what many builders and techniques nonetheless affiliate with the app, but it surely’s one other reminder of the hasty re-brand that X applied final yr.

X elevated the value of its API entry a yr in the past, which has since priced many third social gathering instruments out of the market, because of considerably greater prices of entry.

Ostensibly, the upper prices have been designed to restrict AI corporations from taking X information, and coaching their fashions on such (particularly OpenAI). However on the identical time, X is trying to generate extra income any approach it could actually, as many advertisers stay cautious of Elon Musk’s undertaking.

The present Fundamental X API bundle, priced at $100 monthly, offers customers learn entry to 10,000 posts every month, whereas the Professional bundle, at $5,000 monthly, helps you to entry one million X posts inside the identical interval.

Evaluate that to the earlier Twitter API pricing, during which its top-level Premium bundle value round $2,899 monthly for a lot of builders, and you will get a way of why many have struggled to transition to the brand new system, and in lots of circumstances, have merely deserted their apps as a substitute.

X has been trying to facilitate extra use circumstances, with variable pricing and packages, with this new possibility being the most recent within the platform’s efforts to take care of reference to essential developer communities.

And it’ll assist, and it’ll be fascinating to see whether or not it additionally helps X generate extra information entry income, as extra platforms look to broaden their entry.