gnip is one of those cool services that is so fringe that it may have more developers than users. its another sharecropping deal, just like facebook app builder

gnip is one of those cool services that is so fringe that it may have more developers than users. its another sharecropping deal, just like facebook app builders...get too popular, present a threat to unseat the core services...you get unplugged. it would be a triviality to simply block their ip ranges should they ever get traction against the core services' own webservice strategies