San Francisco: Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Sunday stated that the microblogging platform will allow a free write-only Application Programming Interface (API) for bots offering good content material.

“Responding to feedback, Twitter will enable a light, write-only API for bots providing good content that is free,” he tweeted.

Last week, Twitter introduced that it’s going to cease providing free entry to its API from February 9 and as an alternative launch a paid model.

The Twitter Developer account introduced in a collection of tweets that the corporate shall be discontinuing assist for each the legacy v1.1 and the brand new v2 of its Twitter APIs.

“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead,” the Twitter Developer account tweeted.

“Over the years, hundreds of millions of people have sent over a trillion tweets, with billions more every week,” it added.

Meanwhile, Twitter has advised companies to pay $1,000 monthly for retaining gold badges and types and organisations which don’t pay the cash will lose their checkmarks.

The Elon Musk-run firm, which is busy monetising its platform by means of numerous means, may also cost an additional $50 monthly so as to add badges to every account affiliated with the model, studies The Information.