IMPORTANT: Twitter API - Upcoming Changes to Triberr

[Triberr] By now, all of you have heard that Twitter is undergoing substantial changes and is once again causing disruption to app developers and their users. This impacts us and you. HERE'S THE SCENARIO: - Triberr sends almost 50,000 tweets each month and also sources hundreds of thousands of tweets for users who use our Triberr Curate feature. - Twitter will charge a minimum of $42,000+ per MONTH (or at least $500,000+ USD per year) to access the Twitter API. Though, it'd be a higher cost for us based on our usage. We use this API to post tweets to Twitter and curating tweets. - Twitter will shut off all API permissions to apps that do not subscribe to this plan by April 29th. We waited to see if things would change but no other news yet. WHAT ARE OUR OPTIONS? We've been evaluating how these changes to the Twitter API will impact Triberr and what options are available for our community to avoid disruption. It seems most other social scheduling apps have chosen to simply shutdown their Twitter functionality or shutdown completely. OPTION A: Pay the egregious $500k per year. This is not only unreasonable for a small company but also doesn't offer enough value. Given the many changes happening at Twitter, it's likely Twitter may not be "Twitter" we all know by next year. Keeping up with their app-breaking updates is too costly. 99% of Triberr users are not on a paid plan which helps fund Triberr's constant development, support, and maintenance so it's not fair to raise prices on the 1% to cover others and this large expense. Therefore, this is not a viable option. OPTION B: Subject to Twitter, and to the extent possible, develop functionality to allow users to create their own Twitter API KEYS (FREE) and add it to Triberr to continue sharing/scheduling as usual with minimal to no disruption for users posting to Twitter. The fate of the Triberr CURATE feature to retrieve Twitter posts is still TBD. Naturally, we are moving towards Option B. The team is developing that functionality and will communicate more details as this new feature becomes available. ACTIONS TO TAKE TO AVOID DISRUPTION At the moment, we do expect a certain level of disruption as it seems that Twitter is not the fastest at approving applications to the API. To help mitigate against any delays, please do the following as soon as possible: - Sign up for a Twitter Developer account. This is an additional process that you must go through after you are signed into your existing twitter account. You can apply for a developer account on Twitter here: [(. Note: You can click on the "Sign up for Free Account" link at the bottom of the screen. The free level of access should work for posting to Twitter for personal use. - Create a Project and an App - Once you are accepted into the new V2 API with your developer account, you should create a project and then create an app. Full instructions on how to do this are here: [( NOTE: Twitter may have done this for you already - some users have reported that they've seen Projects and Apps pre-populated once approved by Twitter. If you see a v2 project with Free access - you can skip this step. - Set up User Authentication / oAuth Token - Set up a User Authentication token that will enable Triberr to access your follower counts and other profile stats. - To set up User Authentication, go to your App settings page and click the "Edit" button under the "User authentication settings" section. - Once clicked, it will ask you to edit the User authentication settings. For App permissions, please select the "Read and write" option and enable the "Request email from users" toggle. - Inside Type of App, please select Web app. - Inside the App info, you need to put the following URLs: - Callback URI / Redirect URL: . To get Triberr's username, log in to Triberr and go to your Account settings to see your username. - Website URL: []( - Terms of service: [( - Privacy policy: [( - Click save - Create your FREE Twitter API KEYS - Generate all of the keys needed to post to Twitter from Triberr using the following steps: - Go to the "Keys and tokens" section of your app. - Click the regenerate button under the Consumer keys section to generate "API key and secret". Copy the keys safely and save them into a text document or other place that you'll be able to access them again and click "Saved it". - Repeat the process for the following sections: - Authentication token( bearer only ) section - OAuth 2.0 Client ID - Client Secret sections. - Copy the API key, API secret, bearer token, client ID, and client secret and save them securely into a place where you can access them again. NOTE: You will need these keys to put them into the Triberr system so keep them in a safe place that you can remember where you put them as many of these keys you won't be able to access again without re-generating them. - Populate the Tokens & Keys into Triberr (when functionality is available) - We are in the process of developing this functionality and it will be available shortly. Now that we have all the keys we need, log in to triberr.com, go to [Account Settings](, and click the tab "My Social Networks". - If you already have a Twitter account connected, you can click the "Reauthorize" button from the social network settings dropdown which is next to the "Save changes" button. If you don't have a Twitter account connected and simply click the "Connect Account" button and click the "Connect Profile" button under Twitter. - It will open up a modal for you to enter the following keys: API key, API secret, Bearer Token, Client ID, and Client secret. Please enter the saved keys here and click save. - Once saved, we will redirect the user to Twitter.com to reauthorize the app in order to get the user authentication and user profile info such as public name, tweet count, followers, following, etc. As soon as our new functionality is tested and ready, we'll let you know. At that time, simply enter the API Keys you've generated and things will work normally. These instructions are also available inside our Triberr Knowledge base here: [(. We'll be updating the Knowledge base instructions with a video that showcases the process soon. We'll send communication via multiple emails over the next few weeks and also post a message within the app to perform the tasks above. FUTURE FOCUS: Since history has proven that we cannot rely on building a business dependent on the big social networks (and creators shouldn't either), we want to ensure you own and continue to build your audience. Therefore, we will have a renewed focus on developing functionality for creators and bloggers to grow their community. Thus far, we have offered Triberr to the community for 9 YEARS making us one of the longest running apps for creators. Clearly, we've invested into our users for the long haul so adjusting to market conditions isn't going to derail us from our mission. Have ideas for what you'd like to see in v4 of Triberr? Just hit reply and send them to us. 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