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TweetDeck users will now be migrated to the preview version of TweetDeck. Twitter has also announced that only Verified users, those who pay, will be able to use TweetDeck from August.

The latest reversal by Twitter comes a few days after the New York City Subway said it would no longer use the social network for traffic alerts due to its refusal to pay the company's new API charges

After Microsoft, WordPress is the latest company to leave Twitter's API. This happened after Twitter suddenly suspended WordPress from accessing their API without any warning on April 3rd.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has stopped using Twitter to provide real-time alerts to customers. This decision comes amidst Twitter's hefty $50,000 demand to continue using its APIs.

The disabling of this feature on Twitter is likely due to Microsoft deciding to no longer use Twitter's API which is now only available for a starting price of $42,000 for large companies.

The outage at Twitter started earlier today and affected the social network's APIs. However, the downtime was fairly brief and the social network seems to be back up and running again.

Twitter said the delay in its new API launch was due to wanting "to create an optimal experience for the developer community." The upcoming paid API has been met with some resistance among developers.

Twitter has announced that it will be charging $100 per month for the basic tier of its API. The company also extended the deadline for shutting down free API access to February 13th.

Musk has gone to his social media platform Twitter following the announcement that free API access will be removed, to say that a free tier will remain but only if bots provide 'good' content.

Twitter announced that API access will become paid starting February 9, a few weeks after it blocked some third party usage, marking another monetization effort under Elon Musk's ownership.

Twitter will now allow developers who use the Twitter API to label their bots as "Automated". The label could help inspire trust, but the opt-in method seems open to misuse by bad bots.