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What an incredible first day at The Polymarket. Thousands served today at New York City's first free grocery store — & we've donated 3 million meals on top of that! We'll be open again tomorrow, with a community donation hour from 5-6pm.

I can't believe this is a government website what the fuck.

X just admitted its 2023 API strategy was a $42,000/month mistake. The timeline tells the whole story. January 2023, X killed Tweetbot, Twitterrific, and 25+ third-party clients overnight with zero warning. Developers who had spent 16 years building on the platform woke up to revoked API keys and radio silence. Twitterrific’s maker said “we’re in the dark just as much as you are.” Then X rolled out a pricing structure so aggressive it created a dead zone: $200/month Basic with 15,000 tweet reads, or $5,000/month Pro. Nothing in between. For context, the old Twitter API was free for most use cases. The result was predictable. The entire indie developer ecosystem evaporated. Thousands of apps, bots, analytics tools, and integrations simply disappeared. The developers X is now calling “the core” of its community are the same developers it systematically drove away three years ago. Now they’re offering $500 vouchers and pay-per-use pricing to lure them back. But here’s what the “We’re so back” framing misses: Social Media Today ran the numbers on the new pay-per-use model, and for the same usage the $200/month Basic plan covers, it would cost $575/month under the new system. The per-request pricing is actually more expensive for typical use cases. So who does this actually help? Micro-builders who need 50 API calls a month and couldn’t justify $200. That’s a real market. But the power developers who built the apps that made Twitter’s ecosystem legendary? They left for Mastodon, Bluesky, and custom ActivityPub implementations. Most aren’t coming back because the trust problem runs deeper than pricing. X destroyed its developer ecosystem in 2023, spent three years watching Bluesky’s open AT Protocol attract the exact builders it pushed away, and is now trying to rebuild with usage-based pricing that’s more expensive for the people it needs most. The $500 voucher is the tell. When you have to pay developers to try your API, you’ve already lost the plot.








