Huh? Publishing a website “on the open web” costs money. I pay Google to host my website. If I hosted it on my own machine I’d still pay domain registration and

Huh? Publishing a website “on the open web” costs money. I pay Google to host my website. If I hosted it on my own machine I’d still pay domain registration and ISP fees plus electricity and hardware costs. It’s not totally indefensible for Twitter to charge a small fee for access, although I’m not sure it’s a good idea in this case.