You can build something like Twitter in a month, but you cannot build the nightmare that is the Twitter API. You will be billed like the AWS, perhaps a bit rich

You can build something like Twitter in a month, but you cannot build the nightmare that is the Twitter API. You will be billed like the AWS, perhaps a bit richer. You will be suspended from regular use within limits, you will be given a very short backlog and Twitter will gatekeep any and all remotely useful information.