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Twitter: All Developers Will Get Access to the Firehose in Early 2010
- robryan 17y agoIf ever they could monetize it would be with firehose, not something I think it's really worth giving away for free.
- FreeRadical 17y agoI think they recently said they're going to go with ads (that users will apparently love).
- mseebach 17y agoIt doesn't say that the access would be free of charge.
- anApple 17y agoAnd they will be certainly charging access.
- alexro 17y agodoes that mean Twitter has no idea how to make money off it's inventory other than selling it in bulk?
- leej 17y agono it is not. it's the easisest and the one that cant irritate end users.
- marknutter 17y agoI've had firehose access at the highest level they give to your average developer for a few months now. We've been using it to grab every link on Twitter, but we still miss quite a bit due to rate-limiting (I would say 1-5%). I wonder if this firehose access is every single tweet. If so, it'd be worth paying for.
- timdorr 17y agoFor those interested in preparing: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation Just so you know, the "Gardenhose" (a spam and relevance filtered stream) is already available: http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.xml http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.xml