Twitter launches API 'Pro' plan for 'startups.' Developers think it's a slap in the face.

Too little, too late. Or really, still too much and also too late. That’s the sentiment among startup founders and indie developers when it comes to Twitter’s newly announced API plans meant for startups.On Thursday, Twitter announced a new paid API subscription tier called Twitter API Pro that the company claims is meant for “startups.”  Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) “Experiment, build, and scale your business with 1M Tweets per month, including our powerful real-time Filtered/Stream and Full Archive Search endpoints,” the official Twitter Dev account tweeted when announcing the plan.The cost of this new supposedly startup-friendly API plan? A whopping $5,000 per month.Many did not take this new “more affordable” pricing tier news well. “I don’t know who this plan is for,” tweeted one Twitter user.”Idk what kind of ‘startup’ you think wants to spend 5x the cost of their entire infrastructure on your overpriced data,” tweeted another.New API plan won’t revive what Twitter killedDevelopers have been waiting with bated breath for months now, after Elon Musk acquired the company and decided to end free API access and started charging a minimum of $42,000 per month for Enterprise access. The company also unveiled a $100 per month plan at the time, meant for “students” and “hobbyists,” but most developers found that tier so limiting that they couldn’t run their apps using it.Twitter first announced the API pricing changes back in February. Then, more than two months ago, the company started shutting off access and forcing…Twitter launches API 'Pro' plan for 'startups.' Developers think it's a slap in the face.