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This is so wrong. There is enormous value in data when you aggregate so much. Even if everything is about cats that tells you lots of things. That the economy is is good shape for example, that people are having so little bad stuff going on that they can focus on lunch plans. You'd actually have to do work on the data to really see it's value. Even if you only used it to generate markov chains it's valuable. Entity extraction, sentiment, brand feedback, etc etc.

You missed the point of the whole thing. This is not about displaying tweets, it's about the ability of a analyzing trends, news, popularity, etc. via tweets. It's a huge deal to be able to get 50% (let alone 100%) of all the tweets on a given moment.

Not only is it not about displaying tweets, it's specifically disallowed:

> Customers will only be allowed to analyze the messages, not display them

if you're trying to train a system for sentiment analysis, it's quite a useful corpus.

one man's trash is another man's treasure :)