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>Twitter does sell premium data services including their much coveted “firehose” stream. Twitter’s firehose is a complete stream of all tweets made on their pla
by dandare 8y ago
>Twitter does sell premium data services including their much coveted “firehose” stream. Twitter’s firehose is a complete stream of all tweets made on their platform and is only available to a few businesses at an extraordinary price.
As a developer, I have no understanding of how is data monetized. How much is user data worth? What kind of user data is worth more than others? What is the data used for (why would anyone pay "extraordinary price" for tweets?). Who pays for user data - is there some public market that I am not aware of?
- dewey 8y agoI’d guess adtech, market research and investment companies would be interested.
- throwfaraway113 8y agoFirehose access is prohibitively expensive. Last I heard the cost was based on something like " 30% your company's annual revenue " (this is some sort of second hand rumour I heard when I asked). Services like gnip have everything from the firehose (ever) and it can be retrieved by paying a monthly fee (hundreds, thousand of $ for 500k twwets)