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X (Twitter) Policy Shift Targets Apps Rewarding Users, Impacting Crypto Developers

Published on January 16, 2026

Categories: Platform Policy Developers Regulation Social Media

X, formerly Twitter, has updated its developer API policies to prohibit applications that offer financial rewards to users for posting content. This change is already being enforced, leading to consequences such as Discord server lock-downs for some crypto developers. The platform states this action is part of a larger initiative to mitigate low-quality engagement across its services.

X revised its developer API policies to ban applications that financially reward users for posting, and enforcement has already begun. Nikita Bier, who joined X's product team after selling his social app tbh to Meta, framed the move as part of a broader effort to reduce low-quality engagement and told displaced builders that X would […]

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