Elon Musk says bots making 'good content' will be exempt from Twitter's plan to charge for API access

Sun, 02/05/2023 - 11:24

Tesla CEO Elon Musk smiles as he addresses guests at the Offshore Northern Seas 2022 (ONS) meeting in Stavanger, Norway on August 29, 2022. — Elon Musk smiles as he addresses guests at the Offshore Northern Seas 2022 (ONS) meeting in Stavanger, Norway on August 29, 2022.
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Twitter plans to charge developers to access the API used to make third-party services and bots.
Elon Musk has tweeted it would offer a free, write-only API for bots "providing good content."
He said he was "responding to feedback" when he tweeted late Saturday.

Elon Musk has said "bots providing good content" for free will be exempt from Twitter's controversial proposal to charge for access to the API developers use to make them, after the proposal sparked a backlash.