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		ImPostingOnHN on July 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement it seems he was given access to the Firehose, AKA all the data, but curiously failed to mention that in his filing (I guess it was enough, and he had no complaints?), instead complaining about rate limiting on more specific APIs (the standard Twitter API), which seem extraneous given the Firehose also, said rate limits were lifted

sokoloff on July 9, 2022 [–]

The firehose is not all the data.

Twitter’s value depends heavily on human views of tweets (not part of the firehose), not on the tweets’ content (the firehose).

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