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From TFA: Can developers trust Twitter this time? No. Don't get me wrong, back while working at Klout we got to meet Jack Dorsey and he is intelligent an

From TFA: Can developers trust Twitter this time? No. Don't get me wrong, back while working at Klout we got to meet Jack Dorsey and he is intelligent and interesting. Personally I like him and have some respect for him. With that said, CEO's don't stay forever so there are no guarantees about how long the reign of Jack will last. Since he won't always be in a position to make good on this promise, how can we trust? What is it actually worth? Where is the olive branch? Words sound nice but I've learned to pay more attention to actions. How about something like free firehose access or at least making it affordable for mere mortals? Just "turning the api back on" won't be enough to convince me to sink anymore dev time into $twtr.

15155 11y ago
> How about something like free firehose access "Nope, million bucks, besides, you couldn't possibly handle XX megabits of streaming data per second!!" Every conversation I've had with anyone at Twitter.
- mrweasel 11y ago
  That's not exactly unreasonable is it? There are companies that will pay for fire hose access, so it's clearly worth something. It's also their only real product.
mattzito 11y ago
Almost no one actually needs firehose access, and they charge accordingly (particularly since that's a huge chunk of their value). If you need programmatic access to data, the folks at Gnip will happily sell you the data you need, and at expensive-but-imo-reasonable rates.
unfunco 11y ago
Even if the firehose was affordable for mere mortals, those mere mortals would still need the funds to receive potentially hundreds of thousands of tweets per second (peak)) – which is a lot of bandwidth, persistent storage, processing cycles, etc – and that doesn't come cheap either. If someone can't afford access to the firehose, then my guess is that they can't afford the infrastructure to consume the data anyway.

15155 11y ago

> How about something like free firehose access "Nope, million bucks, besides, you couldn't possibly handle XX megabits of streaming data per second!!" Every conversation I've had with anyone at Twitter.

mrweasel 11y ago
That's not exactly unreasonable is it? There are companies that will pay for fire hose access, so it's clearly worth something. It's also their only real product.

mattzito 11y ago

Almost no one actually needs firehose access, and they charge accordingly (particularly since that's a huge chunk of their value). If you need programmatic access to data, the folks at Gnip will happily sell you the data you need, and at expensive-but-imo-reasonable rates.

unfunco 11y ago

Even if the firehose was affordable for mere mortals, those mere mortals would still need the funds to receive potentially hundreds of thousands of tweets per second (peak)) – which is a lot of bandwidth, persistent storage, processing cycles, etc – and that doesn't come cheap either. If someone can't afford access to the firehose, then my guess is that they can't afford the infrastructure to consume the data anyway.