Twitter Acquires Gnip
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Twitter Acquires Gnip
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Re: Twitter Acquires Gnip
#2Interesting, I had gotten the impression Twitter was aligning itself more with DataSift in recent years. I used Gnip a few years ago and thought it was a great service, although the high price point drove us to ultimately roll our own.
Re: Twitter Acquires Gnip
#3Congrats to those guys. I worked with their service for about a year and they had a great product.
Re: Twitter Acquires Gnip
#4does this mean that they will no longer sell non-twitter data like Foursquare?
Re: Twitter Acquires Gnip
#5Interesting, I had gotten the impression Twitter was aligning itself more with DataSift in recent years. I used Gnip a few years ago and thought it was a great service, although the high price point drove us to ultimately roll our own.
By "roll our own" do you mean you just used the twitter streaming API? Did that have enough data?
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#6So Twitter basically acquired their own data? Hmm.. more proof I dun know how Silicon Valley works.
Re: Twitter Acquires Gnip
#7does this mean that they will no longer sell non-twitter data like Foursquare?
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Re: Twitter Acquires Gnip
#8So Twitter basically acquired their own data? Hmm.. more proof I dun know how Silicon Valley works.
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.
Re: Twitter Acquires Gnip
#9Congrats!
Re: Twitter Acquires Gnip
#10I guess that makes Twitter data cheaper than before? Last time when I contacted them for one week of worth tweets (with some filters on top) they wanted me to pay tens of thousands dollars. I ended up crawling the data myself.