Yeah, I assumed they weren't doing it out of the goodness of their hearts - just that analytics seems like something they'd want to keep a handle on themselves.

Yeah, I assumed they weren't doing it out of the goodness of their hearts - just that analytics seems like something they'd want to keep a handle on themselves. Here's the initial Gnip announcement from almost 2 years ago where Twitter somewhat explain their rationale: http://allthingsd.com/20101117/gnip-becomes-twitters-first-authorized-data-reseller/ http://allthingsd.com/20101117/gnip-becomes-twitters-first-a...