[Ins43b]

I think a large part of this is due to API suspensions. I got the infamous "This is a notice that your app - "your bot" - has been suspended from accessing the Twitter API. However, you can self-serve reactivate your app for free" With a final: "Your application has been reviewed. Thank you for your interest. Unfortunately, we're unable to approve your application." This for a small bot that followed a couple of weather gurus to be notified on Telegram on a new tweet. They killed a huge ecosystem in the hope to stimulate direct site engagement.

[BulgarianIdiot]

Do you think they're delusional enough to think everyone would start paying huge amounts of money instead and keep the API? But then again no wonder someone who paid 44 billion for Twitter might think tweets are worth a lot of money.

[ThunderBee]

I agree and think this is a good thing. Building bots good enough to fool humans has become so trivial a high schooler could do it. Something has to be done unless we want to give up on real human interaction on the internet.

[Ins43b]

Keep in mind, this was a read only bot. But anyways, I was also following bot driven accounts like earthquake notifications. A bot does not equal spam.