Twitter to remove free API access in latest money making quest - The Verge

This is a big and complicated move by Twitter. Even people that rarely interact with Twitter may be using the Twitter API. And the details are going to be complicated. For example, I get updates from a handful of Twitter accounts using Feedbin and the API integration. How will this work now? Does Feedbin pay? I think the thought is I would pay, which is a whole new authentication thing for partners to handle. What about API usage on platforms like Zapier and IFTTT?

The one thing I’m sure this will do is drop Twitters API demand by multiple orders of magnitude. Along with the changes around third party clients, this is turning Twitter more into a closed ecosystem.