I think you're overestimating the value of raw text. A large unsorted dataset is not "free" for AI companies. Without API access there's very little useful inf

I think you're overestimating the value of raw text. A large unsorted dataset is not "free" for AI companies. Without API access there's very little useful information that can be scraped from a tweet. In my opinion, Twitter just wanted to convert lurkers to make it look like the platform isn't dying.