> “We continue to spend an extraordinary amount of money providing a free API” that’s being accessed at “a ridiculous rate of queries per second.” As Twitter co

> “We continue to spend an extraordinary amount of money providing a free API” that’s being accessed at “a ridiculous rate of queries per second.” As Twitter continues to build out its platform, it will do so in an open way, he added. If the proportion of API calls are increasingly from Twitter's own apps, does that count? Also related, this quote from @dickc: > Twitter's committed to stay open & is building free tools to access the stream, saying it's closing misses bigger picture (via https://twitter.com/saila/status/249248288472199169 https://twitter.com/saila/status/249248288472199169) Maybe I am indeed missing the big picture but I feel like their words aren't matching up with their actions. Unless they mean they'll be open to consumers and getting more users onto the network, without consideration to third-party developers who want to create their own vision on top of the API. (I acknowledge that Twitter has the right to do all this and more--that's not my point.)