One API, Michael

Twitter’s $42,000- per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data. I MEAN, IT’S ONE API, MICHAEL. WHAT COULD IT COST $42,000?

A screenshot of a Wired article about Twitter’s extremely expensive API pricing is paired with Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development saying, “I mean, it’s one API, Michael. What could it cost $42,000?” The joke compares absurdly high tech costs to Lucille’s famously out-of-touch attitude toward money, making it useful as a sarcastic reaction to excessive prices. EN: A screenshot of a Wired article about Twitter’s extremely expensive API pricing is paired with Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development saying, “I mean, it’s one API, Michael. What could it cost $42,000?” The joke compares absurdly high tech costs to Lucille’s famously out-of-touch attitude toward money, making it useful as a sarcastic reaction to excessive prices.

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