"We also want to acknowledge that there are going to be some things that developers want to do that just aren’t supported by the platform. Rather than granting

"We also want to acknowledge that there are going to be some things that developers want to do that just aren’t supported by the platform. Rather than granting additional privileges to accommodate those requests, we encourage developers to focus on what's possible within the rich variety of integration options already provided. Developers interested in elevated access to the Twitter stream for the purpose of research or analytics can contact our partner Gnip for more information." Dear Developers, we’re cutting you out now that we think the value of our company is in the aggregate data.