[allantyoung]

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?

[moeffju]

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.