Lol

I have a private piped instance running in oracle cloud free, works nicely for me.

I have thought about running my own, following this for the info.

It is for me

Depends on the terms/contract. Since its twitter I’d think they’d have a contract, which states duration and how much they pay. Once they don’t pay, as long as the contract states they can cutoff service, well they cutoff service and/or servers. But again, depends on what’s in said contract.