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Does anyone know if Twitter was losing money for letting these third party clients have access to the firehouse?

Are these third party clients paying for the API or sharing revenue with twitter?

API access is free and the Twitter API does not expose any type of ads

Third party clients didn’t show ads and there was no revenue sharing

Third-party clients don't have firehose access.

The third party apps didn't serve ads.

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