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		andrewguy9 on March 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained The api hurts the Twitter. My company extracted lots of value from it, which Twitter didn’t monetize at all. But they had huge infrastructure and engineering effort to support the api. They never should have built it.

saryant on March 30, 2023 | [–]

Twitter made hundreds of millions a year selling API access.

moneywoes on March 30, 2023 | [–]

Curious how did they extract value?

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