MTA discontinues Twitter service alerts due to unreliability and high cost.

New York City's transportation system, the MTA, will no longer provide real-time service updates on Twitter, citing the platform's unreliability. The MTA's access to Twitter through its API was interrupted twice in the past two weeks. The MTA will still answer questions on Twitter, but service updates will no longer be available. Riders can use text message alerts, the MTA's website, and the MYmta and TrainTime apps for real-time updates. Twitter CEO Elon Musk said earlier this year that Twitter would start charging a fee for access to its API because the free version was being "abused badly."