Twitter's decision to shut off its free API caused more than a few problems for public institutions that depend on the functionality, and the company is clearly ready to backtrack. The social network ...

Twitter has finally decided that it's a bad idea to cut-off free API access to public transit and emergency weather alert accounts . Credit: Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress Elon Musk has made a lot of ...

Twitter announced Tuesday that it is making its API free for accounts posting public announcements such as weather alerts, transportation information, and emergency warnings. The company said that ...

Twitter is moving away from allowing developers to access its Application Programming Interface (API) for free and will instead offer a paid basic tier, the Elon Musk-owned social media platform ...

Planned changes by one of the world’s largest social media companies could impact how users receive emergency alerts and force millions to other platforms for real-time updates on extreme weather ...

In an about-face, Twitter says it has restored free access to a key tool for verified government and “publicly owned” services so they can tweet weather, transit and other alerts after New York City’s ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The platform will soon introduce a ‘paid basic tier,’ with more details expected sometime next week. The platform ...

Weather apps are notoriously easy to build and extremely difficult to police. Any developer can whip up an interface from a template, add a weather API (there are loads of them), and put it up on the ...