> I was talking about the firehose, not the full social graph Ah, I got a bit muddled in my diction here. I was trying to refer to the firehose. The firehose

> I was talking about the firehose, not the full social graph Ah, I got a bit muddled in my diction here. I was trying to refer to the firehose. The firehose itself should inherently have some useful graph data though, as you would be able to see all the @reply relationships. > What issue do you see here? can you expand? I don't have a great handle on the economics here, but I can envision a scenario where: cost to deliver firehose (engineering, infrastructure) + (marginal cost/user * users) > market value of firehose/user * users Again, this may sound silly to someone with a better handle on the numbers behind engineering & maintaining this solution. My salient point was just that I'd be curious to find out what kind of value they could extract from the firehose by selling it directly.