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Jetpack and WordPress.com announced they will no longer support the Twitter API in their products. Last month Twitter suspended WordPress.com’s access to its API, which broke Jetpack Social Sharing – the mechanism that auto-tweets published posts.
Although WordPress.com’s access to the API was reinstated for a few weeks, the company has now been priced out of offering features that rely on Twitter’s API:
Twitter recently notified Automattic that it was dramatically changing the terms and pricing of the Twitter API. The cost increase is prohibitive for us to absorb without passing a significant price increase along to you, and we don’t see that as an option. We have attempted to negotiate a path forward, but haven’t been able to reach an agreement in time for Twitter’s May 1 cutoff.