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Re:Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access by pfooti on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @02:50PM (#11299759)
If it was the case that emojitracker was reselling that api access, I could see cutting it off.

But I think that a rich, robust ecosystem would flourish more around a platform that provided free API access to noncommercial projects.

Of course, it's conceivable that this API access costs twitter a significant amount of money - it is a lot of data, after all. Even a low cost could be written off as advertising within the platform. "Look at the cool stuff we could build on this API, let's make a commercial product and pay twitter for access!"

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Re:Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access by aioprisan on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @04:05PM (#11300267)
> But I think that a rich, robust ecosystem would flourish more around a platform that provided free API access to noncommercial projects.

This. Also, if API access costs Twitter a significant amount of money, they shouldn't be in the platform business and shut down their API entirely.

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