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Nintendo Switch Abandons Twitter, Following Xbox and PS5
Oddly enough, they don't seem to want to pay $42,000 a month for access to the API
Elon Musk continues to run X(formerly Twitter) in a variety of questionable ways, and surely one of the oddest is the decision to charge vast amounts of money for access to the site’s API. Time was, Twitter offered access to its API (Application Programming Interface—the mechanism and protocols by which two different pieces of software could communicate) to all who wanted to grab it, to encourage other apps to interact with the social media company’s systems. Xformerlytwitter has responded in the most embarrassing fashion, its one million-follower @xGaming account simpering about how important and relevant it remains, and how X and Nintendo are still best-best friends and they’ll probably be getting milkshakes together later.
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