&gt;What they should have done is ramp that shit up and figure out how to monetize the query traffic or figure out a way to decentralize their infrastructure to allow everyone to run Twitter together<p>So, I&#x27;m genuienly curious. How do they make money by &quot;ramping that shit up&quot;? I&#x27;ve seen a lot of companies that have &#x27;get users&#x27; as their M.O., but I have no insight into the &quot;profit!!!&quot; phase. Opening their user base seems contary to &quot;profit!!!&quot;, from a laymans perspective.<p>It seems to me like API&#x2F;User info availability is their leverage w.r.t. profitability, much as it pains me as a potential developer who would like that information for free. How does decentralization make them (and their investors) money? I can&#x27;t see a way to do both given the incentives.