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> Use of paid-only APIs virtually always stagnates.

You should add the keyword: expensive APIs.

Nobody cares about pay $10 a month to experiment and use the API, especially if it makes things easier to get and not have to explain to some Twitter service why you need access.

It's when they make it expensive that nobody will use it.





Ouch. If that's the final pricing, yeah, that's probably going to hurt enough that people stop using it.


Man, he is out to lunch




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