I recently found out that in their ever growing hatred of api users Twitter has switched to using technique #2. In order to get a new key these days you have to

I recently found out that in their ever growing hatred of api users Twitter has switched to using technique #2. In order to get a new key these days you have to fill a long form with redundant questions and lengthy minimum paragraph length responses. My use case was very simple so I had trouble thinking of things to say to meet the minimum length requirements. It took me about 20 minutes to fill out the form only to be denied several days later asking for more details about the stuff I had already written. I just gave up at that point, which is probably what they wanted me to do anyway. I wonder why they don't just shut down their API, I suspect it's only because they don't want to take the bad PR but.