Twitter API pricing and limitations: a detailed overview

Intro

Twitter is one of the largest and most popular media platforms in our modern world. In 2021, the social network turned 15 years old, and the number of registered accounts was about 1.3 billion. More than half a billion people around the planet regularly use this resource. It makes Twitter an attractive platform for promoting a brand, building a customer base, and increasing loyalty to a company/product. That is why it is so crucial to get information from Twitter. You can successfully do it with Twitter API from Data365. A detailed tutorial on how to use Twitter API can find https://data365.co/guides/how-to-use-twitter-api.

In this article, we ensure you with particulars on Twitter API limitations and the price of using our API. You also can find practical tips on how to compute Twitter API cost.

Twitter API limits: what is this?

The effectiveness of Twitter API use depends heavily on the API limitations. What is it, and is it really so important? Let's consider Twitter API limits in every detail.

Twitter API rate limiting involves setting limits on the request number or amount of data to prevent the API from being overloaded.
Official Twitter limits API to rise its scalability and Internet security. Data365 also uses the best practice for Twitter API rate limit on definite types of data to optimize queries and improve the performance of the data obtaining process.

For your complete overview, let's see the table with Data365 Twitter API limits on the amount of data in 1 request:

Data type

Limits

Tweets per profile

up to 300

Tweets per search

up to 300*

* Apply the monitoring or re-creating requests using filters with different time intervals (parameter from_date, to_date), locations (parameters near, within), languages, etc., to raise the number of tweets on the Twitter web version response.
** Comments per tweet are in the pipeline.

You should also keep in mind our Twitter API rate limits: you can get up to 100 such requests per second. Usually, the response time is within 1-5 minutes and depends on the amount of data in the query.

Twitter API pricing: all you need to know

The base Twitter API price from Data365 is €300 and covers 500k mentions per month. But users can choose a tariff plan, taking into account their needs.

The larger volume you would like to get, the higher price you should pay. Our sales representatives can help you pick up a pricing plan that best fits your requirements. Every month our sales team bills the clients assuming the selected tariff plan. Clients should pay per month using a bank transfer or credit card. So, we can conclude that Data 365 suggests an easy pricing model without any subscriptions.

And last but not least – if you want, you can ask about free API access for testing purposes.

In the previous line, we talked about Mention. This indicator is used for requested information counting. You can consider the Mention index more thoroughly for Twitter data at https://api.data365.co/v1.1/twitter/docs#section/API-mentions-quota.

Below you can find a couple of examples illustrating how to calculate the cost of requests. So you can determine the approximate total consumption and choose which Twitter API costs suits you best.

Twitter API pricing: all you need to know

The base Twitter API price from Data365 is €300 and covers 500k mentions per month. But users can choose a tariff plan, taking into account their needs.

The larger volume you would like to get, the higher price you should pay. Our sales representatives can help you pick up a pricing plan that best fits your requirements. Every month our sales team bills the clients assuming the selected tariff plan. Clients should pay per month using a bank transfer or credit card. So, we can conclude that Data 365 suggests an easy pricing model without any subscriptions.

And last but not least – if you want, you can ask about free API access for testing purposes.

In the previous line, we talked about Mention. This indicator is used for requested information counting. You can consider the Mention index more thoroughly for Twitter data at https://api.data365.co/v1.1/twitter/
docs#section/API-mentions-quota.

Below you can find a couple of examples illustrating how to calculate the cost of requests. So you can determine the approximate total consumption and choose which Twitter API costs suits you best.

First example: let's say you want to download a Twitter profile and 80 of its tweets:

The estimated cost of the request will be 9 + 1 * 80 = 89 mentions

9 is the cost of profile data

1 is the cost of a tweet

80 is the number of tweets

If the Twitter user had no tweets at all, then the cost of the request would be 9 mentions. You should only pay for profile data.

Second example: let's say you would like to find 100 tweets, then:

The estimated cost of the request will be 7 + 1 * 100 = 107 mentions

7 charged per search query

1 is the cost per tweet

100 is the number of tweets you expect to receive

If fewer tweets were found during the search, you only pay for the number of found tweets.

We recommend you kindly use our mentions calculator to determine Twitter API cost you should pay. Just input the needed type of data and the assumed data volume, and the app will calculate the total amount of mentions. Knowing this value, you can choose the appropriate tariff plan.

We also advise you to check our Twitter API documentation, where you can find detailed information on how to start using our API (API operation algorithm, helpful tips, sample requests and responses for each element, and much more).

We can infer that Data365 Twitter API suggests a very convenient and client-oriented pricing policy, and the company's sales team can help you with any questions you have.