A reason for dropping the service wasn’t provided, but as we noted when Blizzard elected to remove Twitter integration from WoW, changes to the Twitter API made earlier this year are the likely culprit. Access to the API, which had previously been free, was replaced with a far more restrictive option, while Basic access, “for hobbyists or prototypes,” now goes for $100 per month. The next level up is the Pro tier, “for startups scaling their business,” that goes for $5,000 per month, while the Enterprise tier, which I imagine is where a company of Sony’s scale needs to be, offers different monthly subscription prices “based on usage and needs” that start at $42,000 per month.
Musk is bad at business. The biggest reason Musk is so successful is that he was born rich. Same is True for Trump.
If you can afford to fail it becomes astronomically easier to throw ideas around, turn them into real things and see what sticks.
And that’s why they call themselves entrepreneurs.
Serial entrepreneurs
Is it 42,000 because funny Elon wants it to be 420?
The fact that this is a plausible theory tells you all you need to know about this man child.
Wanna bet that the increments go up by either $4200 or $6900?
It’s a banana, what can it cost? 5000 dollars?
Article says the most likely reason is that Xwitter started charging for API access.
Oh. My. God. You’re saying that charging for API access might be bad for business? /s
reddit would like a word
What’s reddit?
Some Gore and Porn site. Would not recommend.
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Noted, thanks :)
A lot of people left Reddit. I think years down the road we’re going to find out just *how many bots were used to prop up their user numbers post-Rexit…
Charging for API access is fine. The problem is the fuck-off price tag. $42k is so outrageously dumb that it suggests that Musk doesn’t want businesses to use the Twitter API.
Oooooof course they did. Musk is such a fucking idiot. Making a good, reliable, and CHEAP TO USE/ACCESS platform is the best way to keep people around. Nickel and diming everyone for everything is not working
From what I read its substantially more than nickels and dimes. He’s beginning to give trump a run for his money on who is more toxic to everything they touch.
Jesus Christ, 5k a month is “startup level”? I haven’t been part of many startups that can blow 5k a month on something as frivolous as Xitter integration.
5k a month is a good portion at least of another employee. If your startup is wasting that kind of money on something so useless, it’s probably not lasting long.
Just wait for the next steps Apple and Google telling him to fuck off. Then he will…make a new phone, it should be a banger!
And he’ll call it something original like The Cyberphone.
X-Phone
The PhoXe
Zero PhoXe given at this point
Xhone
Xbox. That’s fine right?
Talk-X
No, it would have to be the Xphone 🤣
I would love to see the dumpster fire that would be Musk’s mobile phone business. Please let this be his next thing.
Elon would say “why are we not charging a premium for each digit users want to dial?” #brilliant idea #wicked smile #hands rubbing together
Start a Mastodon instance and give every PSN subscriber an account.
That’d be pretty cool, actually.
Oh, no! Well, anyways
Wait, why would you want to use Twit… Sorry, “X” on a playstation of all things?
To post content recorded on your console to your followers/friends. So creating content for the platform that drives engagement. You never know when some random video posted is going to go viral.
Kinda dumb shutting off platforms that give your platform content. Oh well…
that a fair point, but ive never seen any good videos that come from these platforms, none gone viral, if anything is saving x bandwidth of all the shit children be uploading. Im no twitter fan, but some of these articles are so anti twitter is kinda suspicious.
I disagree. You cannot tell me no popular gaming videos were uploaded using this method, millions of people play on PlayStation, and short form gaming content has only gotten more popular. This cuts a huge step out (no need to mess around getting it onto your computer to upload).
I’ve been around fps gaming social media (which is primarily where a clip button gets used) for a lot of years now, and can confidently say I’ve never seen an auto-upload go viral. Clipping straight from the console is a pretty terrible experience on both sides. Sucks as a creator because you have 0 options over the upload and a very short time limit. For the viewer it’s a very low quality clip that’s a fixed length.
If anyone is at all serious about content creation and wants to even attempt something viral it’s got to go through a capture card first.
Wow, pretty impressive you’ve seen every gaming clip ever.
If the platform is still around in ten years, I’ll still call it Twitter out of spite.
Previously it’s one of the ways to get the screenshot and videos from PS4/5, the other is using usb flashdisk which is rather cumbersome. Now they have a feature to upload it to PS App, so using Twitter is not that needed anymore
I hope they join Mastodon. Seems like a great place once you take the time to learn it which is necessary to reap the benefits. It is not like a corporate service that bends over backwards to attract you but once you are in, it is easy than said corporate network.
They could even just set up their own server for PSN accounts.
Serves that eejit right.
I’m no Elno fan but it’s hardly an L for him. There are probably like 2 actual PS owners that care about this.
I disagree. This is yet another bad headline in a string of bad headlines that I’m certain won’t make advertisers go “ah yes, let’s up our Twitter advertising budget”.
It was free advertisement of the platform
Sony’s decision to drop X integration comes several months after Microsoft opted to disable uploads to the platform from Xbox consoles and the Windows Game Bar. Blizzard removed Twitter integration from the World of Warcraft MMO even earlier, back in February.
Upvote for using “Elno fan”.
A huge portion playstation content creators and esportspeople use xitter integration at some point. This comment is uninformed.
Who the hell checks Twitter / X in PlayStation devices anyway
You used to be able to post clips and screenshots easily. I don’t think there was ever a PlayStation app for browsing Twitter.
