Twitter to cut off firehose resellers as it brings data access fully in-house

Twitter is taking back full control over who has access to its ‘firehose’ of real-time tweet data. Twitter has previously made its firehose data available to third-party apps via three authorized resellers – Gnip (which it acquired a year ago), Datasift and NTT Data. In a post on the Gnip blog yesterday, Twitter announced that it would be transitioning all data customers to a direct relationship with the company from August this year. Twitter says companies that buy firehose access will s



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