Twitter already shutoff the firehose [1]... and it doesn't seem like that doubled their valuation. Also, twitter's data was never truly public: you can follow

Twitter already shutoff the firehose [1]... and it doesn't seem like that doubled their valuation. Also, twitter's data was never truly public: you can follow tweets on some topics, but a proper deal with twitter is needed if you want access to the firehose (so it wasn't just under some pay-for-play API). [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/04/11/how-to-kill-your-ecosystem-twitter-pulls-an-evil-move-with-its-firehose http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/04/11/how-to-kill-...