Twitter has shared more details about the upcoming changes to its API that will require most developers to pay in order to keep using its developer tools.

Twitter, once a public square for ideas, is shutting off its API and closing its gates to other platforms, including Flipboard. Your Twitter feeds on Flipboard will be broken.

Twitter has begun cutting off developer access to the API, including for those companies wanting to pay the platform thousands of dollars per month for its upcoming paid Enterprise tiers.

Users are once again worried about Twitter’s future and overall culture following the platform’s announcement that it will no longer provide free access to its API. Here’s what API is and ...

Twitter's original hardline stance was that everyone who wanted to use its API – beyond the small $100 "hobbyist" plan – had to pay for an Enterprise plan, which starts at $42,000 per month.

Twitter will no longer support free access to its API. It will launch a paid tier soon. It blocked several third-party clients last month.

Many of Twitter's users are not happy about the change, as they say it will fundamentally alter the platform's culture.