“Everything used to work fine before we started paying half a million per year,” shared one developer in a private Twitter developer group chat shared with Mashable.

A fool and their money are easily parted

I mean…yea. I know it sucks but willingly giving money to Elon musk is no different from checking it into a black hole and you should probably not

I feel bad for developers who have built a business around Twitter. But hopefully everyone comes to realize, proactively: just do not do business with Musk or his ilk. Don’t buy from his companies and don’t sell to them either: they don’t pay the bills. Don’t partner with them; they will steal your ideas and steamroll you out of existence. Just let them wither and die.