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murdanon Thousands of Public Data Sources

There are a lot of awesome data sources out there that are currently being put up for public consumption by small independent teams, one example being DrugCite.com which takes the FDA AERS (Medication Side Effect) data and lets you search by drug name, side effect, ect. then sort it be age and gender.

murdanon Show HN: See drug side effects reported to the FDA by people like you.

Ok, I get the purpose here, and it's a nice layout, but how do you plan to monetize this, or do you plan to?

murdanon Twitter will exceed 500 million users on Wednesday

I wonder how many of those accounts haven't been accessed in several months or a year. I thought previously twitter was primarily run by a small percentage of power users.