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Unless this is the idea. Never have worked with it before but my understanding (confirmed by many of the comments here) is that the current API is pretty difficult to work with. Rate limit the new API and allow less restrictive access through paid tiers.

Suddenly Twitter is no longer reliant solely on ad revenue and all of the stigmas associated with it in the current changing environment.

With this, they are no longer an ad company but a platform ala Google Maps/Stripe. Plenty of companies would be more than willing to pay for unrestricted access to Twitter for data analysis.

Ad revenue may take a hit but won’t disappear overnight