I quite frankly don't see *any* economic value in a downsampled
Firehose. Why should *anyone* pay Gnip for 10% or 50% of the Firehose
when they can negotiated *directly* with Twitter for the whole Firehose?
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Quoting Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com>:
The minimum Gnip charge is $500 per month, with a minimum of a year
contract, if you want to use Gnip in a production application.
And that's before the -- still unknown -- additional access charges
for the Twitter feeds.
You can't use Gnip in a production application if you are not an
incorporated business, so that excludes access for many developers,
even if they can afford the charges.
Maybe there's a secondary market here, for an incorporated business to
provide access for one-man developers to Gnip data for a fee. Meaning,
Reseller Inc subscribes to Gnip and gets the data feeds, and resells
them to one-man developers. I haven't checked Gnip's TOS to see if
that's expressly prohibited.
On Nov 17, 2:51 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zn...@borasky-
research.net> wrote:
Ryan, what about User Streams? I'm building something around User
Streams but it is a "non-display" analytics application. Am I at risk
for Twitter inserting another business into *my* data stream as well?
And I'm curious how some of the other Streaming consumers are going to
react to insertion of a monopoly middleman into their data source. I
briefly dealt with Gnip a while back and found their API hard to use
and their pricing exorbitant.
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