tveastman

An update,

Added 2023-04-05 03:59:05 +0000 UTC

Hey everyone!

I want to thank all of your for helping contribute to the cost of running Secateur, and to give you a quick update.

Twitter have announced that free access to the API is being cut off sometime this month. And that app developers will then have to sign up for either the basic plan ($100 per month) or the "enterprise" plan (42 thousand freaking dollars per month).

One hundred dollars a month is going to be fine, *if* it works.

Here's the thing, the limits and capabilities of the "basic" plan don't mention what Secateur does (i.e. block people). Also, it would appear that rate limits for blocking are inconsistent between individual apps.

So what I'm saying is, I think it's pretty likely that, when I sign up for the paid API access, Secateur still won't work.

I recently did a bit of experimentation to see how I might be able to get around some of these limitations, but I ended up getting my own personal Twitter account temporarily locked -- so that didn't work.

Here's what I think might happen: Sometime in the next month, Secateur's access will be abruptly cut off, and I'll be told I have to upgrade my API access to a paid tier.

I'll do the upgrade, and Secateur *might* start working again. If it does: cool!

But if the upgraded credentials don't work, then I think that might be the end of the app. I'm very sorry about that, and I'm glad to have been able to help people on Twitter in some small way, while I could.

And in the meantime: thank you once again for your support!