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He was ahead of the curve.

APIs are definitely the way forward but there are still some hold outs - and increasingly, many of the social platforms such as Twitter and LinkedIn are putting limits on the type of data they share.

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I wonder if you're conflating the issue of public APIs vs internal APIs. (Amazon also limits the type of they share on public APIs.)

What benefit is there, really, to Twitter or Linkedin to allow other people to leverage their resources for free?

in my view, it's user growth. get more users consuming from your platform, then they can consume it across all their media and devices and on some of those transmission platforms or devices you can monetize.

Well, I presume that's why they offer an API, but does then allowing unlimited use outweigh the costs?

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