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I'm a customer of Gnip's - they provider several enrichments and data normalizations on top of Twitter's stream. Could Twitter have hired X engineers and duplic
by waterside81 12y ago
I'm a customer of Gnip's - they provider several enrichments and data normalizations on top of Twitter's stream. Could Twitter have hired X engineers and duplicated what Gnip does? Perhaps - but Gnip also has an existing customer base, existing revenue flow, infrastructure setup to handle customers creating their own matching rules etc.
There's more to Gnip than just re-selling the Twitter firehose.
- thefreeman 12y agoGnip also integrates with a number of other services as well
- fvryan 12y agoWill these sites want Twitter to have firehose access to their data? For example Tumblr, Foursquare, Wordpress? They also offer Facebook data, but it is a managed public API connection.
- thefreeman 12y agoIt's a very good question. I really have no idea what the implications are and probably depend on each company.