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In addition to this, the firehose license almost certainly includes 96 pt font printed in blood-on-asbestos specifically enumerating "publishing aggregate stati
by patio11 12y ago
In addition to this, the firehose license almost certainly includes 96 pt font printed in blood-on-asbestos specifically enumerating "publishing aggregate statistics" as one of the things you're not allowed to do with the data, on pain of a breach of contract suit with damages measured in percentage points of Google's market cap.
- MichaelGG 12y agoSo why publish it, when you can just calculate and trade on the info? Though the costs of getting all the data might hurt the profitability of this plan. (The resellers charge per tweet, so you'd need to fall back to a sampling scheme, though that might be his enough.)