Twitter is really concerned about monetizing the 10% that don't use the official Twitter clients? That seems very corporate. I was happy when Twitter broke into the mainstream (Tweets from celebrities and/or Tweets quoted/shown on major news networks), and this latest development seems to show that they effectively want a scrolling CNN News type ticker (eventually) in their UI of promoted "trends" (how can it be a trend if it is promoted)?
Are they going to block anonymous API usage as well? I would be really annoyed as I don't like morassing through OAuth to get a Tweet.
e.g.
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?user_id...
(428333=Cnn Breaking News)