Jetpack announced that the auto-share feature of the social part of the plugin will cease to work for Twitter, blaming last minute changes by Twitter and an inability to come to an agreement.
The Jetpack announcement explained:
“Twitter decided, on short notice, to dramatically change the terms and pricing of the Twitter API.
We have attempted to work with Twitter in good faith to negotiate new terms, but we have not been able to reach an agreement.
As a result, the Twitter connection on Jetpack Social will cease to work, and your blog posts will no longer be auto-shared to Twitter.”
Twitter offers a free limited version access of it’s API to individuals, for one app ID.
It also offers a “Basic” version costing $100/month for two app ids and it doesn’t say how much the Enterprise level costs.
Those prices are arguably expensive and counterproductive for a site like Twitter that is losing users to Mastodon and other social media site.
Twitter’s new API access rates make little economic sense to Twitter (which should seek to make it easier for users to engage on the site) and for services like Jetpack that can bring thousands of daily users.