To be clear - the only access to the firehose that has been cut off is for people who want to resell that data. The writing has been on the wall for that for q

To be clear - the only access to the firehose that has been cut off is for people who want to resell that data. The writing has been on the wall for that for quite a while - there's really no reason for Twitter to sell data to a third-party, who can then sell that data to other people. End-users of the data are still free to purchase the data from Gnip/Twitter and do whatever they want (within the TOS of Twitter)