You and I agree.<p>The original poster is talking about queries in a difference sense than a Google query - he&#x27;s referring to it as an API call in a &quot;firehose&quot; sense - so I&#x27;m buying access to the Twitter data for my application. I&#x27;m suggesting that the number of people who will pay for those API calls is limited.<p>But no doubt that money is in the ads - that&#x27;s why I suggested that they should turn the API back on, but require clients to display the ads. Sadly, I think this opportunity is gone as they have killed their developer ecosystem.