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X makes it 1,900 percent more expensive to post links
The social media platform X has drastically increased its API pricing for posting links, with some developers reporting a price hike of 1,900 percent. This change makes it prohibitively expensive for many third-party tools and services to automate content sharing on the platform.
MY TAKE
This is another stark lesson in platform risk. Building a business on someone else's API is always a gamble, and drastic pricing changes like this can invalidate entire products overnight.
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X makes it 1,900 percent more expensive to post links" from The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/tech/916178/x-link-post-api-expensive-techmeme) [2026-04-21T18:27:18.000Z]