Twitter: All Developers Will Get Access to the Firehose in Early 2010

I've had firehose access at the highest level they give to your average developer for a few months now. We've been using it to grab every link on Twitter, but we still miss quite a bit due to rate-limiting (I would say 1-5%). I wonder if this firehose access is every single tweet. If so, it'd be worth paying for.

For those interested in preparing: <a href="http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation" rel="nofollow">http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation</a><p>Just so you know, the "Gardenhose" (a spam and relevance filtered stream) is already available: <a href="http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.xml" rel="nofollow">http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.xml</a>

does that mean Twitter has no idea how to make money off it's inventory other than selling it in bulk?

If ever they could monetize it would be with firehose, not something I think it's really worth giving away for free.