Not sure about the REST/Search API, but on the Streaming side:

http://twitter.com/pdfs/streaming_api_eula.pdf

... see Restrictions ...

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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Will Fleming <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are the "various terms and agreements" that currently disallow this
> published anywhere?
> After a brief look (perhaps I missed it) at:
> http://twitter.com/apirules
> http://twitter.com/tos
> http://help.twitter.com/forums/26257/entries/18311
>
> As far as I can tell there isn't anything that explicitly
> disallows resyndicating or making "Twitter data available via an API".
> The TOS also states:
> "Tip: This license is you authorizing us to make your Tweets available to
> the rest of the world and to let others do the same."
> "Tip: We encourage and permit broad re-use of Content. The Twitter API
> exists to enable this."
>
> thanks
>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:06 PM, John Kalucki <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Not at the moment, as we expect that the number of services that this will
>> apply to is small. We'll be clarifying data access and licensing over the
>> next few months.
>>
>> -John Kalucki
>> http://twitter.com/jkalucki
>> Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Abraham Williams <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is the specific set of requirements published anywhere?
>>> Abraham
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 06:50, John Kalucki <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Your application description sounds like resyndication, which is not
>>>> allowed under various terms and agreements. You cannot make Twitter data
>>>> available via an API unless a very specific set of requirements are adhered
>>>> to. Contact [email protected] to start this process.
>>>>
>>>> -John Kalucki
>>>> http://twitter.com/jkalucki
>>>> Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Diz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> For the last 3 months I am experimenting the Search API. I'm focusing
>>>>> on the geo-location searching capabilities.
>>>>>
>>>>> For the beginning I started with my own city, but my intents are to
>>>>> extend to the major cities of my country: that will be at most ten. My
>>>>> idea of application is to offer real-time activity on each major city,
>>>>> through a proxy that caches all tweets and then serves them further to
>>>>> clients, filtered or non-filtered. Frequency of requests should be
>>>>> between 5 to 10 seconds, and that means I should do between 400 to 800
>>>>> requests per hour just for one city, and probably between 4000 to 8000
>>>>> requests for the whole application.
>>>>>
>>>>> My questions are:
>>>>> 1). Should I use Search API, or should I move to the Streaming API?!
>>>>> 2). To whom I should request whitelisting: the usual Search API or the
>>>>> Streaming API?!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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