X's API bills every post it returns, so I moved my filters into the query 💸

Six posts read, two kept, six paid for. One operator fixed that. Hi! I'm Tim, a self-taught developer in Nairobi. I build small data tools that run as Apify Actors, serverless jobs that people pay for per result. This week I built one that finds posts taking off on X for a topic, a list of accounts, or whatever is trending. The interesting part wasn't the code. It was the bill. 🚪 Why the…