Paid plan feature restrictions due to Twitter API monetization
Lite Plan (free plan) feature restrictions: Please refer to the previous announcement.
We have decided to partially change the content of feature restrictions for paid plans from the initial announcement. As a result, additional feature restrictions will apply to our users. We apologize for the inconvenience, but please check again (Added May 30, 2023).
We have resumed providing the Followers management and Followers analytics features (Added June 8, 2023).
Thank you for always using SocialDog.
We would like to inform you that, due to the paid nature of the Twitter API, we have decided to restrict some features available in SocialDog's paid plans.
To all our users, we sincerely apologize for this sudden announcement.
As the Twitter API usage fees after the monetization are extremely high, we decided to significantly restrict the features of the Lite Plan (free plan) starting from May 16, 2023. However, upon scrutinizing Twitter API usage within SocialDog, it became clear that it would be difficult to keep within the Twitter API usage limits by restricting only the Lite Plan features. Therefore, we regret to inform you that we have decided to restrict some features for paid plans as well.
Going forward, to meet your expectations, we will utilize the Enterprise API, which will become newly available due to the Twitter API monetization, to provide even more sophisticated and stable services than ever before. Regarding the Keyword Monitor, which will be significantly restricted this time, we plan to rebuild it using the Enterprise API, and provide features to retrieve and notify Post in real-time, as well as the ability to search Post from the past 30 days.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to our users and kindly ask for your understanding.
Changes
For features available in paid plans, we will make the following Changes.
Feature
Business Plan
Pro Plan
Lite+ (formerly Basic) Plan (including formerly Pro Plan (2016) and formerly Pro Plan (2017))
Data Acquisition*1
Up to once per day
Up to once per day
Up to once per day
Confirming @tweets (Inbox)** (Updated May 30, 2023)**
Available (no change)
Discontinued
Discontinued
Keyword Monitor** (Updated May 30, 2023)**
Temporarily suspended (from around June 1, 2023. Measures during suspension period are described later)
Temporarily suspended (from around June 1, 2023. Measures during suspension period are described later)
Discontinued
Sent Follow Request Display*2
Discontinued
Discontinued
Discontinued
RSS Auto post Max Posts per Past Month*3
** (Updated June 8, 2023)**
300
100
30
Confirming tweets posted using services other than SocialDog (Post history)
** (Updated May 30, 2023)**
No change
Discontinued
Discontinued
Followers Management
** (Updated June 8, 2023)**
Resumed
Resumed
Resumed
Like tweets
** (Updated June 8, 2023)**
Discontinued
Discontinued
Discontinued
- *1 "Data Acquisition" retrieves Post history, Follow/Followers, and @tweets. In addition to data acquisition from Twitter performed automatically on the server, it includes the data acquisition feature that can be manually performed from the arrow button (Get latest data from Twitter) in the upper left corner of the SocialDog screen.
- *2 "Sent Follow Request Display" is a feature in the Followers Management function that indicates whether a Follow request has been sent to a private Account. Follow requests can still be made in the future.
- *3 "RSS Auto post Monthly Post Limit" refers to the maximum number of tweets that can be posted via RSS Auto post in the most recent month (Updated June 8, 2023). This is a newly Added restriction. If the "RSS Auto post Monthly Post Limit" is reached, tweets exceeding the limit will not be posted.
Date of Change
May 22, 2023 (Changes will be implemented sequentially)
- The Changes to the "Confirming @tweets" feature, "Keyword Monitor," and "Confirming tweets posted using services other than SocialDog (Post history)" feature are scheduled for June 1, 2023.
About Temporarily Suspended Features (Updated June 13, 2023)
Keyword Monitor
Due to contractual issues with the Twitter API, the provision of Keyword Monitor will be temporarily suspended. However, Keyword Monitor will be rebuilt using the paid version of the Twitter API, Enterprise API (Full Archive Search), and will be released in the near future.
Q&A
Q. What is the Twitter API?
A. The Twitter API is a mechanism that allows external services to utilize Twitter data. Twitter announced its monetization in March 2023.
Q. What happens if I have already set up RSS Auto post?
A. RSS Auto post that has been set up previously will continue to operate. However, if the number of tweets posted via RSS Auto post in one month exceeds the "RSS Auto post Monthly Post Limit," the RSS Auto post will cease to function.
We sincerely apologize for any great inconvenience caused to our customers due to these Changes in our services. We also deeply apologize for any trouble caused by these sudden Changes.
SocialDog will continue to strive for daily development to provide services that satisfy all our users.
We kindly ask for your continued patronage.