Lots of people looking at the Twitter free API shutdown and going "well I guess you won't be able to [X] anymore!!". But we're overlooking another, much worse possibility, which is that many of those things will keep happening, but now Twitter will be getting paid for them.
I still have my Playstation and Switch logins linked to Twitter accounts because even if I don't use Twitter the easiest way to get screenshots off those systems is to post them to a tweet on a burner account then download the image elsewhere. So when the free API goes down in a week, will that feature just stop working? Or will Sony/Nintendo cut a deal, and I'll just be earning Elon Musk five cents every time I save a screenshot? Horror
