News broke late Friday night that Twitter made a significant move towards bolstering its own big data business by cutting off firehose access to third parties. Twitter’s ‘firehose’ refers to the raw, unfiltered stream of tweets and all related metadata. An announcement from Twitter’s data analytics team states that previous agreements with third party resellers of firehose data will be terminated. Twitter’s own data analytics team, Gnip, was once a third party reseller before being acquired in 2014. The acquisition was made in an effort to build direct relationships with people who use Twitter’s Data. “The next step in working […]
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