Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...
One of the first moves Elon Musk made when he took over X, formerly Twitter, was to slap a $42,000-per-month price tag on the enterprise Twitter API, while neutering the capabilities of the API's ...