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Just an FYI - it appears Elon Musk has decided to remove access to Twitter's API and is going to start charging $150 a month starting on 2/9. As a result, the Twitter feed will be going away, as I'm clearly not going to be able to pay that.
Kind of stinks, but "It is what it is". I'll try and find a way to replace it as it's been a useful tool to learn about breaking news, reports, interesting information, etc. I think it's ludicrous to not at least offer smaller sites a more reasonable plan if he's decided to start charging for access, but that's apparently not going to be the case.
I'll probably replace it with a general one, but the removal of the API access will take away the ability to select/deselect who you want to appear in it - which was one of the features I know most people liked, despite the fact some of the people you weren't following got retweeted into it. Otherwise, it worked really well. Unfortunately, once it's shut off, the bird icon at the top will disappear, as will the "Customize" button.
So barring a change on his part over the next few days, that's what's going on. Before anyone goes there, I don't want to get into anything in this thread about Twitter and free speech, etc., that's not the point of this. It's just to let people know ahead of time about a change that I have no control over that is coming.
Kind of stinks, but "It is what it is". I'll try and find a way to replace it as it's been a useful tool to learn about breaking news, reports, interesting information, etc. I think it's ludicrous to not at least offer smaller sites a more reasonable plan if he's decided to start charging for access, but that's apparently not going to be the case.
I'll probably replace it with a general one, but the removal of the API access will take away the ability to select/deselect who you want to appear in it - which was one of the features I know most people liked, despite the fact some of the people you weren't following got retweeted into it. Otherwise, it worked really well. Unfortunately, once it's shut off, the bird icon at the top will disappear, as will the "Customize" button.
So barring a change on his part over the next few days, that's what's going on. Before anyone goes there, I don't want to get into anything in this thread about Twitter and free speech, etc., that's not the point of this. It's just to let people know ahead of time about a change that I have no control over that is coming.