As a developer, not really a tweeter, I'd be super-happy if a read-only API was opened up again. It was a gold mine when it came to creating cool things back in the days, especially analysis stuff.
No thanks don't want another Cambridge Analytica on our hands.
Yet those types of organizations are already scraping this data behind the scenes. Twitter’s API restrictions hurt well intentioned actors.
Do you think CA (and others) are restricted by API or non-API? A missing API hurts developers the most, not huge companies who can access the data either way.