Twitter should be paying them for providing a valuable service to Twitter’s users. It was a service that increased Twitter’s value, both directly and indirectly

Twitter should be paying them for providing a valuable service to Twitter’s users. It was a service that increased Twitter’s value, both directly and indirectly by legitimizing it as a source of official information. The new cash-desperate Twitter instead wanted to squeeze a few bucks from them, and lost a high profile user and became less useful to remaining Twitter customers.