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Some links on Twitter automation through Selenium web-browser automation

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/16

A few years ago, Twitter basically killed API access by making it cost prohibitive for anything but very large organisations.

Here are some links I archived back then that might be able to replace some automation behaviour by using Selenium to drive a web browser.

Background:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | WIRED UK
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Twitter Suspends WordPress.com’s Access to Twitter API, Breaking Jetpack Social Sharing – WP Tavern
  3. [Wayback/Archive] Why Twitter Auto-Sharing Is Coming to an End – WordPress.com News
  4. [Wayback/Archive] The End of Twitter Auto-Sharing
  5. [Wayback/Archive] Priced Out of API Access: Jetpack and WordPress.com Discontinue Support for Twitter Auto-Sharing – WP Tavern

Selenium:

Queries:

–jeroen

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