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I have made an app that retrieves tweets using the function rweet::get_timeline (in the rtweet package).

The app suddenly stopped working with the following error message:

Warning: Error in : Twitter API failed [403]. Check error message at https://developer.twitter.com/en/support/twitter-api/error-troubleshooting

According to one Twitter page, the free tier does not seem to allow tweet pulls (see screenshot below).

Just to have this perfectly clear: Does this mean that it will now longer be possible to use rtweet::get_timeline (to retrieve tweets from different users)? Thanks for any information that might help clarify this!

Screenshot from Twitter page describing the API functionalities available under the free and paid versions

madsR
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    Only the paid tier of Twitter API can use search-related methods, therefore rtweet::get_timeline no longer works. Rtweet appears to be for the most part dead now. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. – br00t May 30 '23 at 20:12
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    If you have a university affiliation, the access actually got better recently. A free academic developer account works a lot like a paid tier account. – DaveArmstrong May 30 '23 at 20:34
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    You may also want to see this blog post written by the package maintainer about the future of {rtweet}: https://llrs.dev/post/2023/02/16/rtweet-future/ – nrennie May 30 '23 at 20:49

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