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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Think of API as a fast food drive trough, the developer (you) drive to the window and order some information and the API serve this information back to you
This is usefull for programs to get data and/or integrate a system into theirs
Information this context means like the latest 500 000 tweets and data connected to them or Ben Bigdongs tweets between 2015-2016 and the first 100 comments on it (these are made up as I havent used the twitter api, but for explanation it suffice)
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