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Also: What data is being bought? Publicly available information bundled up so there's not hassle with gathering it would be ok IMO. Private data would spark my

Also: What data is being bought? Publicly available information bundled up so there's not hassle with gathering it would be ok IMO. Private data would spark my interest as well. They can't be selling DMs, can't they?

randomblob 9y ago
If somebody says "Emails": What are they used for then by the buyer?
- qznc 9y ago
  Things I can think of: Broadcast a tv spot, then measure how much hashtag mentions it generates. Find regions where people are more receptive to your product based on Twitter sentiment. Filter for stock mentions and use it for your trading bot.
baddox 9y ago
They used to sell the “firehose,” which I believe was a real-time feed of every single tweet (something not available from the normal API). I don’t know if that still exists.
- knappe 9y ago
  Gnip used to do this. But twitter purchased them and now runs the product. This is still a thing.
- pgwhalen 9y ago
  They do to some extent, there was a great talk at Strange Loop this year about the architecture of that system.