Mazal Tov, but this isn't the game changer I was hopping for (:
Twitter Acquires Gnip
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#32I 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.
were you able to get firehose access for that? or were you just spidering the public tweet stream?
Most likely spidering; its difficult/expensive to get firehose access.
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#33I've often wondered if there's any hidden terminology in some of these press release, eg: " http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/15/twitter-buys-gnip-taking-o... "To that end, we have agreed to acquire Gnip" - I'm wondering for example if the "agreed to acquire Gnip" means that Twitter doesn't see this as a high-value acquisition on the same level as Crashlytics or Mopub.
I found that phrasing weird in the blog as well: "Today I’m pleased to announce that Twitter has agreed to acquire Gnip". Makes it sound like they almost forced the acquisition on Twitter. I'm not sure that Gnip is a 'high value acquisition' for Twitter though - AFAIK they're basically just re-streaming Twitter fire hose data which Twitter could do themselves. This is probably just a way for Twitter to lock down/get…
The wording is generally used because the transaction has been agreed t though it may not have been completed officially / legally.
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#34I wonder what this will mean for Gnip's biggest competitor, DataSift.
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#35I've often wondered if there's any hidden terminology in some of these press release, eg: " http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/15/twitter-buys-gnip-taking-o... "To that end, we have agreed to acquire Gnip" - I'm wondering for example if the "agreed to acquire Gnip" means that Twitter doesn't see this as a high-value acquisition on the same level as Crashlytics or Mopub.
Maybe that language indicates who has the leverage in the deal and thus reflects in their stock price - post-buy.
It would be interesting analizing the phrases surrounding acquisitions both public and private may reveal this...
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#36I 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.
were you able to get firehose access for that? or were you just spidering the public tweet stream?
no, i just used streaming api to gather the data. you can crawl surprisingly more data with streaming api as opposed to regular api.
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#37Either Ghostery or AdBlock prevent the actual content of the blog post from loading. Please don't rely on Javascript to load content like that.
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#38Best of luck to the Gnip guys -- they're a great group of people.
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#39I wonder what this will mean for Gnip's biggest competitor, DataSift.
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#40Either Ghostery or AdBlock prevent the actual content of the blog post from loading. Please don't rely on Javascript to load content like that.
Not sure why you're being downvoted but I logged in to same the same thing. This blog is blank to me.