The Twitter API finally got shot down.
These three tiers include a bare-bone free level mostly meant for content posting bots, a $100 per month basic level and a costly enterprise level. None suitable for my purpose.
Free: Write-only access to Twitter, with the ability to post 1,500 tweets per month is still free, although this tier wasn't even originally considered.
Basic: Twitter’s new “Basic” tier will cost $100 per month and will enable you to post up to 3,000 tweets per month at the user level, or 50,000 tweets at the app level. The read limit for this tier will be 10,000 tweets per month.
Pro (added later): $5,000 per month, get 1M Tweet and post 100k per app.
Enterprise: This level is for big platforms that make significant use of the Twitter API and will cost up to $42,000 per month.
Academics are being given free access to for noncommercial purposes.
Since taking over the social media network, Elon Musk has focused on cutting costs and boosting revenue, firing thousands of employees and doubling down on the company’s paid Twitter Blue subscription service. Musk justified the API changes by saying the free service was “being abused badly” by “bot scammers & opinion manipulators.”