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Gnip Blog
blog.gnip.com · Company blog · on HN since 2009
Gnip's company blog explained how to use social media data streams, especially Twitter's firehose, and covered the company's partnerships and acquisition by Twitter.
What HN saysHN links it for background on Gnip and Twitter's data access, including Twitter's acquisition of Gnip and its cut of firehose access to other resellers.
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- 1Taming the Social Media Firehose2 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 2How to Gauge Reaction to Earthquake Using Social Data2 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 3Twitter data ecosystem2 people · first shared 2015
- 4Twitter Acquires Gnip1 people · 129 points · first shared 2014 · 41 comments on HN
- 5Activity Streams1 people · 13 points · first shared 2010 · 2 comments on HN
- 6Data Stories: Interview with Hilary Mason of Bit.ly1 people · 6 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 7New Gnip & Twitter Partnership1 people · 5 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 8Gnip Increases Twitter Geo Data 15X1 people · 4 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 9Shame on GNIP for shutting their "community edition".1 people · 3 points · first shared 2009 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Visualizating 121 years of monthly precipitation in Boulder1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 11Data Stories: Christian Rudder of OKCupid1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12Data Science at Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 13Big Boulder discussion on Social Data in China1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 14Migrating to the Twitter Streaming API: A Primer1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 15Gnip Introduces Search API for Twitter: Instant/Complete Access to Recent Data1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
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niftich · 2016-09-16
They already do this [1]. They used to sell this access to 'value-add' data analytics resellers as well, but in 2015 they acquired one instead [2] and stopped reselling it [3].
[1] https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/firehose
[2] https://blog.gnip.com/twitter-data-ecosystem/
[3] http://thenextweb.com/dd/2015/04/11/twitter-cuts-off-firehose-reseller…
flurdy · 2015-05-01
Twitter also recently cut access to their firehose in a similar embrace, extend, extinguish manner (sort of).
Only Twitter acquired Gnip can keep using it whilst access has been cut for companies like Datasift.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/11/twitter_cuts_off_firehose_from…
http://blog.datasift.com/2015/04/11/twitter-ends-its-partnership-with-…
https://blog.gnip.com/twitter-data-ecosystem/
I'm not in a position to say if this is as bad as the 3rd party rugpull a few years ago, as it may only mean people have to pay Gnip for the same data instead.
http://blog.datasift.com/2015/04/21/processing-twitter-data-from-gnip-…
ecoffey · 2012-09-19
Gnip has been around for a few years, but re: backstory, this post from our CEO Jud lays things out pretty nicely: http://blog.gnip.com/we-believe/ (disclaimer: I work for Gnip).
DrSkippy27 · 2012-06-14
Part 3 post on consuming social media firehoses... Also, see Part 1 (http://blog.gnip.com/streaming-api/), which gives a high-level view of social media firehoses, Part 2 (http://blog.gnip.com/twitter-reaction-earthquake/), which gives a data science example.