{"id":158178,"date":"2023-02-16T03:29:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T09:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-provide-a-free-write-only-api-to-bots-providing-good-content"},"modified":"2023-02-16T03:29:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T09:29:16","slug":"elon-musk-says-twitter-will-provide-a-free-write-only-api-to-bots-providing-good-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-provide-a-free-write-only-api-to-bots-providing-good-content","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says Twitter will provide a free write-only API to bots providing \u2018good\u2019 content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-provide-a-free-write-only-api-to-bots-providing-good-content2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Twitter said it is <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/02\/01\/twitter-to-end-free-access-to-its-api\/\">shutting down free access<\/a> to its APIs starting February 9. Now, days before the deadline, Elon Musk said that after getting feedback from developers, Twitter will provide a write-only API for \u201cbots providing good content that is free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This decision is as opaque as some of the other policy decisions under Musk\u2019s management. There is no information on what constitutes \u201cgood content\u201d and who will decide that. However, if Twitter ends up implementing this rule, some bots will get a new lifeline on the social network.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/01\/16\/twitters-third-party-client-issue-is-seemingly-a-deliberate-suspension\/\">shuttered API access to third-party clients<\/a> saying they broke a \u201clong-standing rule\u201d without any specification. Then the company <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/01\/19\/twitter-officially-bans-third-party-clients-after-cutting-off-prominent-devs\/\">silently updated its developer terms<\/a> to reflect that app can\u2019t \u201cuse or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Twitter said it is shutting down free access to its APIs starting February 9. Now, days before the deadline, Elon Musk said that after getting feedback from developers, Twitter will provide a write-only API for \u201cbots providing good content that is free.\u201d This decision is as opaque as some of the other policy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}