It's about more than protecting your investment - supporting a REST
API over existing resources is one thing, but supporting a free
streaming API to the firehose, on the scale of Twitter, is a whole
nother matter.  I don't know that the dividends by offering a
completely free streaming API and expanding the user and developer
base (like the REST API does) would be worth the incredible bandwidth
costs they would incur by doing so.

-- Eric

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Andrew Badera <[email protected]> wrote:
> Likewise. I even went so far as to say the same to Fred Wilson,
> without response. Very disappointing -- I'll repeat myself here -- I
> don't know that I can imagine a more bitter hypocrisy than Twitter's
> behaviors of late toward the development community. I understand
> protecting your investment, but I also understand integrity and
> graciousness.
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> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:19 AM, tyler gillies <[email protected]> wrote:
>> as ive said to a friend fairly recently
>>
>> f*SK twitter ;)
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Julien Genestoux
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> We (superfeedr) have created a hub exactly like this : we susbcribed to
>>> the right users with the streaming API (that they've had for months), and
>>> rebuild the feeds from it. It's technically fully fonctionnal.
>>> I got in touch with Ryan Sarver and John Kalucki who said that this hub
>>> would be breaking their TOS (which specifically mentions that we can't
>>> redistribute/resyndicate/republish the data) and that if we turn it on,
>>> they'd probably shut our access down. I believed this is more or less what
>>> happend to GNIP last year.
>>> Since I hate building things that are not "durable" and I don't want to
>>> piss off people with false expectations, I never turned it on. If Twitter
>>> ever changes their TOS or is even willing to discuss this specific matter
>>> with us, we're more than happy to turn this hub on.
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:54 AM, tyler gillies <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> im surprised superfeedr just doesn't get firehose access and create their
>>>> own twitter hub
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Kevin Marks <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> sitting at their hackathon, the stream is the same continuous flow of
>>>>> JSON structs as the others are. You could use it to send updates to a PuSH
>>>>> hub.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Jeff Lindsay <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Which also makes it possible for people to publish as PuSH ....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Jud Valeski <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> just means that they're moving more and more funx over to the
>>>>>>> streaming model (not PuSH).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Didier Durand
>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Does anybody know if the announcement of yesterday by Twitter (see
>>>>>>>> http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/14/twitter-user-streams-annotations/)
>>>>>>>> means that they are coming to Pubsubhubbub ?
>>>>>>>> They mention "real-time notifications", no "more polling", etc.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks by advance for your hints
>>>>>>>> didier
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
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