Paying $8 to use special Twitter restores honesty in the customer-business relationship. Pay for it if it's valuable, otherwise use the free version.
Competition to make you happy vs. farming you for your data.
OK, you never did stop working for the US govt did you?
It means you are talking to a deluded individual who thinks The Government has far more domestic spies than it actually does. He's not totally wrong; there are a crapton of 'em, right?