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Re:Twitter Offers Metered Pricing for Firehose of Tweets by allantyoung on Friday February 04, 2011 @02:07AM (#2178670)
This should really read "Gnip offers metered pricing for firehouse of tweets"

This is welcome news. Aside from search engines, no one wants to drink the entire firehose. Why doesn't Twitter just enter the monitoring business itself?

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Re:Twitter Offers Metered Pricing for Firehose of Tweets by moeffju on Friday February 04, 2011 @03:07AM (#2178766)
Because they would be (rightfully) accused of attacking their own ecosystem. Because people (rightfully?) believe that they should focus on their core product first and not dabble in somewhat related areas until that is stable. Cf. the backlash when they brought out their "official" apps.
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