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Twitter applied a ton of pricing changes around working with their API, and simply connecting users and offering an integration with it may not be worth their time considering the sheer number of users.

Accusing PlayStation of being the walled garden here is laughable considering Xs practices.

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Yeah, I work for a company that offered a product that (among many other features) was used by medium-to-large institutional customers to post to and query Twitter… even getting a quote from X was a journey, but when it finally arrived it was a very very large amount of money for heavily restricted API access. We had to drop the feature. I wouldn’t be surprised in Sony was offered a similarly unrealistic quote.

Opinions are my own.

>but when it finally arrived it was a very very large amount of money for heavily restricted API access.

I'm glad to see that X has taken this route, and I look forward to seeing the fruits of their ingenious business acumen. I hope they raise their prices even more.

Raising their prices even more won't make a difference.

It's already too expensive which is why all the useful integrations have dropped off the platform.

To be clear, this isn’t Cambridge Analytica or spammer stuff. This was about publishing low-volume high-value content, and we didn’t have any sort of data gathering or analytics features.

Bot activity had been an issue on the platform for years.

Perhaps they've decided to cut off all bots so that only humans are left there

Problem bots don't use the provided API. Also if that was the goal, they'd disable the API altogether.

The bot problem has not even slightly been solved by charging for API access, while lots of real value drivers have left the platform.

I have tons of crypto and NFT bot spam waiting for me every time I log back in.

>Accusing PlayStation of being the walled garden...

There was no accusation. It is merely a statement of fact.

> Twitter applied a ton of pricing changes around working with their API, and simply connecting users and offering an integration with it may not be worth their time considering the sheer number of users.

The first chunk of your comment provided a lot of useful context

> Accusing PlayStation of being [a] walled garden

???????????????????????? is this argumentative fanboyism really helping anyone here?

Did they add some way to sideload your own apps or do what you want with photos and videos on the device at some point while I wasn't paying attention?

This is why people hate walled gardens. If everything is some half-assed walled garden, your ability to do interesting stuff gets painfully curtailed.

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