This is going to be a big problem for companies that are doing analytics with twitter data. If I were twitter I would allow other companies to sell their data

This is going to be a big problem for companies that are doing analytics with twitter data. If I were twitter I would allow other companies to sell their data so that developers have other ways to obtain twitter data. Having GNIP be the only reseller of twitter data will keep the price too high. Maybe twitter wants to discourage people from accessing twitter through other platforms thereby forcing people to have to go through #newtwitter. What ever the reasoning, this results in less innovation on the twitter platform.