In a blog post on Monday, Twitter announced it has opened up its full data feed of all public tweets (otherwise known as a “Firehose”) to seven new startups, and would like to partner up with even more.
“We are thrilled to announce that Ellerdale, Collecta, Kosmix, Scoopler, twazzup, CrowdEye, and Chainn Search join us as partners,” Twitter wrote. “These companies range from funded startups to part-time, one-person operations so we cam up with a fair way to license access that scales with their business. If you think there may be a potential partnership involving access to the Firehose, let’s start a conversation. Our emails is [email protected]”
Twitter has already partnered with a handful of industry heavyweights, including Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. According to Twitter, there are now more than fifty thousand “interesting applications” that are currently using its freely available, rate-limited platform offerings.
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Twitter Opens Data "Firehose" Up to Developers
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