Good news! Elon Musk's X has heard the cries of third-party developers looking to access the platform with their apps and has introduced a new pay-per-use self-serve model instead of a one-time flat-fee subscription.

The bad news? Somehow, it seems more expensive than the previous one-time flat-fee subscription model.

On Monday, X's Developers account officially announced the beta launch of a pay-per-use API model.

"We are expanding a closed beta to both new & power users who want to ship amazing apps on X," reads the series of posts from @XDevelopers. "Our top focus is to enable builders by opening up our developer platform."

Since Elon Musk took over X, the company formerly known as Twitter, the platform has essentially lost its third-party app ecosystem. Twitter was once known as

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