Elon Musk’s Twitter Tweaks Nuked These 13 Useful Emergency Service Bots

automatise emergency and essential service Twitter chronicle have become the latest fatal accident in Elon Musk ’s flailing effort to rid Twitter of bots andsqueeze users to pay for previously free accessto its applications programme programming user interface ( API ) .

Over half a dozen chirrup accounts link up with the National Weather Servicetweeted out statementsover the weekend saying Twitter had barred them from using its API . Twitter ’s sudden suspension think the accounts are prevented from forthwith pushing out automated weather alerting and warnings from their parent agencies . Those account have hundreds of thousands of followers conjointly and are an invaluable safety instrument for residential district members trying to keep track of potentially dangerous weather events . Twitter alsosuspendedthe US National Tsunami Warning Center ’s API access before finally reverse that decision . It remains unclear why Twitter resolve to turn back course on some of those suspensions and not others .

All of that topsy-turvydom and confusion stems from Musk ’s haphazardattempt to monetize access to Twitter ’s API . Starting this month , developer interested in get at the API now have to prefer between a Free , Basic , or initiative grade . The costless version provides 1,500 tweet each calendar month at the app level . That form jump up to 3,000 tweet per month if developers fork over $ 100 for the Basic bust . The Enterprise tier up , which is what most government agency say they would need , cost an eye - watering $ 42,000 per calendar month . Twitter argued the drastic changes to the once - innocent system were intend to battle Twitter ’s bot infestation . That may have sour , but Musk ’s tier system of rules is kill off effective bots along with the bad .