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I think a distinction needs to be made, I agree that a company using this many of the Tweets as part of a commercial effort should pay. I also think that a res
by robryan 16y ago
I think a distinction needs to be made, I agree that a company using this many of the Tweets as part of a commercial effort should pay.
I also think that a research effort with the ability to process 100% of Tweets can most likely afford to pay. Something like the 5% though, I think a great deal of research can be done on the Twitter platform may be prevented because of the cost. For research maybe you could charge the bandwidth required to deliver the stream, no idea what kind of ballpark this would be in.
- neilc 16y agoI also think that a research effort with the ability to process 100% of Tweets can most likely afford to pay Processing 100% of all tweets is not actually very hard or expensive: 2000 messages/sec is small potatoes if you want to do it in realtime, and even easier if you are just doing batch analysis queries. You could do it (with reasonable performance) for much, much less than $360,000/year (let alone 2x or 3x that for the 100% feed).
- robryan 16y agoNot that amount, but afford to pay some amount for access, obviously for the massive full price little if any research that can't be monetized will be conducted. It's a net loss for us all and no gain for Twitter.