Twitter recently announced they will no longer support free access to the Twitter API. Everyone seems up in arms about it and I can’t figure out what an API even is. What would doing something like this actually affect?
I’ve tried looking up what an API is, but I can’t really wrap my head around it.
Edit: I’ve had so many responses to read through and there’s been a ton of helpful explanations! Much appreciated everyone 🙂 thanks for keeping this doofus in the know
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When you use Twitter, you are “driving” your computer: You look at the screen, and you use your hands on the keyboard and the mouse to interact with it.
Computers without a “driver” don’t have eyes or hands, so they instead use an API to drive.
So an API is a way to “use” a website without having a “human” actually sitting there.
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