Plus I didn't realize the cost $1000 + $50/head per month. For a huge organization like NYT that could amount to enough money each year to hire one more good journalist.

Twitter shuts down its free API and affects multiple apps

https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/06/twitter-shuts-down-free-api/

You all remember when Yahoo dropped Inktomi and then Inktomi's stock dropped down to around $0.50/share from it's high of something like $240/share?  A few months later Yahoo bought Inktomi for $1/share.  I feel like Twitter is very close to collapsing, all it would take is for a couple of big names to walk away.  Musk seems to be doing everything he can to make that happen.   Last week he stopped fact checking posts from state sponsored news from China and Russia, at the same time he started labeling NPR state sponsored media.

>>  NPR state sponsored media

You got me curious whether that was just being fair and even-handed which made me ask how much federal funding does NPR get? Answer:

QuoteWhile NPR does not receive any direct federal funding, it does receive a small number of competitive grants from CPB and federal agencies like the Department of Education and the Department of Commerce. This funding amounts amounted to less than 0.1% of revenues, according to its 2020 public filings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Funding

Which made me wonder if it's worth all the political wrangling and Twitter labelling they get for that money.

>0.1% of revenues

I agree it would be nice for them to be untethered.

Twitter lifts restrictions on Russian government accounts | Ukrainska Pravda

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/8/7397036/

Elon Musk and Substack are beefing.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/elon-musk-and-substack-are-beefing-here-s-a-rundown-of-the-back-and-forth-between-the-twitter-ceo-and-the-blogging-site/ar-AA19DHEe

Hard to starboard!!

BBC branded 'government-funded' on Twitter

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/09/bbc-branded-as-government-funded-on-twitter/

Guy is losing his mind.  He's changed his handle to "Harry Bōlz"
and just whited out the W in twitter in SF HQ sign so that it reads "titter".

NPR pulls out.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label

Quote from: littleman on April 12, 2023, 03:54:56 PM
NPR pulls out.

That's excellent news. I was sort of hoping this would be a consequence of the Musk takeover. I listen to a handful of podcasts with journalists and they all seem addicted to Twitter. I've noticed on an individual level that people are pulling back from Twitter. But for too long it has been the discussion forum of choice for journalists, which I think is bad given the character limits and the gamification of the platform.

PBS pulled out.

CBC 'pauses'

Swedish Public Radio is out.

Microsoft kicks Twitter in the teeth | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/19/microsoft-kicks-twitter-in-the-teeth/

Twitter removed the "government-funded media" tag on public broadcasters, including the CBC, on Thursday without any explanation.

The move came after the Global Task Force for Public Media called on Twitter earlier in the day to correct its description of public broadcasters in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea.

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6817729

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Twitter drops 'state-affiliated', 'government-funded' labels  | Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/4/21/twitter-drops-state-affiliated-government-funded-labels