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by aurelius83 1243 days ago
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?
4 comments
darnfish 1243 days ago
API access is free and the Twitter API does not expose any type of ads
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scarface74 1243 days ago
Third party clients didn’t show ads and there was no revenue sharing
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saurik 1243 days ago
Third-party clients don't have firehose access.
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b800h 1243 days ago
The third party apps didn't serve ads.
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