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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Reading Twitter’s API (usually with documentation) tells a developer what to write in their own software so that it will communicate properly with Twitter.
Being unable to access this information means that any developer who wants their software to exchange data with Twitter will just not be able to do it, or be very limited. It limits functionality of third-party apps – anything that is built for Twitter but isn’t a part of Twitter.
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