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Twitter had asked the MTA to pay $50,000 a month to continue accessing the platform's
New York’s subway will no longer post alerts on Twitter after Elon Musk demanded $50,000 per month
New York City’s mass-transit system is ending its real-time service alerts on Twitter for subway, train and bus riders as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority curbs its relationship with the platform owned by Elon Musk.
Twitter had asked the MTA to pay $50,000 a month to continue accessing the platform’s application programming interface, or API, an infrastructure tool that allows for multiple computer programs to work together, according to an MTA official.
https://fortune.com/2023/04/27/new-york-mta-twitter-service-alerts-elon-musk/
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good, NY subway is the worst of them all.
wild shit happens there all the time.
0/10
Agreed, The worst subway lines in the world dirty, crowded, dangerous & smelly.
Yea why not, they make profits in millions & >$2 billion in annual revenue, why free rideshare on twitter.
Dafuq? That's why they need to alert people.
Subways are not profit centers. Afaik, it's funded from taxes, so yeah, you want them to be fiscally responsible.
$50000 per month to auto-post on Twitter is fucking insane.
Actually, I'm kind of glad this is happening. People have already been looking at twitter recently with all the stuff about the blue ticks and wondering if they can still rely on it as part of their business. This is a categorical statement to every company that no, they cannot. Hopefully this will just accelerate twitter's death spiral.
Hey it’s worth a try. Best case you get paid, worst case you spawn competition. Every generation thinks their tools are public property but they’re not. Every new round of kids thinks their social network is forever but it’s not. Twatter and Facelift are temporary. They’re already dying to TikTok anyway.
If Musk was half the business man he portrays he’d beg the government to regulate social media, assist with the writing of the regulations, and set himself up a monopoly “for the kids.” Either he’s not that good or he has values that he’d rather fail with, either way works for me.
They still can.
One of their employees can tweet about delays like a normal business if they don't want use the API.
How many tweets do they send a day? Cheaper just to have a team member post shit that is relevant.
So what you’re saying is that he’s creating jobs and killing automation, which pisses off people who are commonly pissed off about automation replacing jobs.
It’s pretty funny if you think about it like that 😂
And they can post a video about delay to tiktok too. 😃
LEB/LET has two Twitter API integrations:
LowEndBox's Wordpress plugin tweets new posts
I wrote a python script that uses ChatGPT to summarize new offers posted in LowEndTalk's offers category and tweet about them via Twitter's API
The pricing says only one App ID but I think the WP plugin uses the publisher's app ID, whereas the python script uses an app ID I setup.