In response to varied 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’ll be able to see on this instance, subscribers will now have the choice to pay a one-off payment to entry extra posts in the event that they want. Which might assist these engaged on analysis tasks and people who want sudden expansions of their entry.

As per X:

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

Sure, they nonetheless word “FKA Tweets”. Which is smart, as that’s what many builders and programs nonetheless affiliate with the app, but it surely’s one other reminder of the hasty re-brand that X carried out final 12 months.

X elevated the value of its API entry a 12 months in the past, which has since priced many third social gathering instruments out of the market, because of considerably increased prices of entry.

Ostensibly, the upper prices have been designed to restrict AI corporations from taking X knowledge, and coaching their fashions on such (particularly OpenAI). However on the similar time, X is trying to generate extra income any means it might probably, as many advertisers stay cautious of Elon Musk’s challenge.

The present Primary X API bundle, priced at $100 monthly, provides customers learn entry to 10,000 posts every month, whereas the Professional bundle, at $5,000 monthly, permits you to entry one million X posts throughout the similar interval.

Examine that to the earlier Twitter API pricing, through 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 instances, have merely deserted their apps as a substitute.

X has been trying to facilitate extra use instances, with variable pricing and packages, with this new choice being the newest within the platform’s efforts to take care of reference to crucial developer communities.

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