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According to the post, the Twitter API was already generating $400M/year in revenue. Not sure what it cost, but that doesn't sound like a charity to me.


That is the commercial API. People keep treating these the same, when they have nothing to do with eachother.


You need both. Without the free API you don’t have a funnel of new customers who can grow into the enterprise tiers.

They have a hell of a lot to do with each other beyond that too.

(Led the search API team at Twitter and worked on both API platforms)




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