Twitter API Changes: Pricing and Limits

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Due to Twitter (X) charging us $5,000 to access the API we used to access for free. We're gonna be adding a saving limit for everyone. In fact, a small percentage of users (around 3%) are saving more than 60% of the total number of saves. So changing plans would make sense.

So What? Should we raise prices? Add limits?

It won't be fair to just raise prices for everyone. Not everybody runs a research lab and saves thousands of tweets/month. Therefore, a limit of monthly saves would be a fairer solution.

The prices will remain unchanged for the moment, is it a hard decision to make, but we know that most premium users will not even hit the saving limit.

For now: - Premium users limit will be 50 threads a month. - Free users limit is not decided yet. Later on, we'll raise the limits for all users, actually, we had to postpone the launch of the free service until we make sense of the plans.

What we are sure about, is that the limit will keep getting higher and higher for premium users. You'll be able to save more and more. This is the lowest limit we can think of, in the worst-case scenario, we'll break even, but we know that we can operate with a higher limit.

To give you more perspective, the Twitter API Pro plan: - pulls 1,000,000 tweets per month - costs $5,000 A normal thread (15 tweets) will cost $0.075 50 threads this length costs: $3.75 A month of premium plan is: $5 (when you take yearly, the most popular plan)

So we're left with $1.25 From this, we'll pay PayPal's fees, Payhip fees, Hosting, domains, and taxes. Our Back-end and Front-end devs, UI/UX and social media designer, our founder @Abdulhade_Ahmad And of course, Twitter's $5,000 will be paid from the #3.75

This would be absolutely impossible if we weren't Save to Notion. At our scale, we can make it work, we can operate. It is almost impossible to find a valuable thread without it being saved by us multiple times. This is how we can stay sustainable by adding limits.

To be clear. $1.25 is the lowest we can earn from a user, because: - Not all threads are 15 tweets long, - Not all users will save 50 threads/month - Threads pulled before will be cached so we won't pull them again.

So 50 threads/month is actually the lowest limit we'll be adding. Expect it to get higher over time, as we monitor your saves and see how many threads will be pulled by each user.

An interesting thing that might be added: If a thread was pulled before, we won't count it against your limit, as it will not cost us to pull it again from Twitter. This can be added later.

We at Save to Notion had to do this to stay sustained, to keep inspiring, helping, and organizing valuable content for everyone who likes their Threads tidy and organized.

Please let us know what you think. And again... Although we know that we'll be raising this limit soon and most premium users will not reach that limit, we wanted to be clear with you. Keeping you in the loop has always been our motto.

By the way, you can now link your Reddit account with Save to Notion Dashboard so you'll be ready when we launch the bot 🚀 We'll keep adding new features, keep enhancing and listening to your ideas.