[mroth]

Author here. To be clear, I don't believe I deserve free or special access to anything. The point I was trying to make was actually more in the opposite direction: I wouldn't want to receive free/special access as an exception now simply because the project has become "famous", if the same opportunity doesn't exist for other independent developers when their projects are starting out -- I just want to encourage a level playing field.

(When Emojitracker originally received elevated access 3 years ago, the project was not famous or well known at all, it was just a slightly more formal version of Me saying: "hey check this out, I think this might be a cool hack but I need access to 900 keywords instead of 400, that ok?" and Twitter: "yeah cool, no problem dude.")

[Bedon292]

So you are still accessing the streaming endpoint, but you have more keywords than they normally allow? So you are not accessing the entire Firehose and parsing from there, right? Do you regularly update it to include new emoji when they come out? I am thinking about ways to do it on the free stream still, just trying to see where you are already at.

[williamcotton]

You should only expect a level playing field from public infrastructure.

You should never expect a level playing field from private infrastructure.

If anything this is more proof for the need of a public access Twitter-like service using public key crypto for self-signed authentication.