Are Toll Roads Open?
Twitter proved me wrong. Well, sorta. After my last article I had a whole slurry of rebuttals by Twitter employees suggesting my last article had “serious factual errors” and that the move by Twitter to charge $360,000 a year for 50% access to their full firehose through Gnip actually made Twitter “more accessible” and “open”, […]
Read more...Twitter’s Gnip Deal Ensures a Closed Ecosystem
Today, at Defrag conference, Twitter announced a new deal with the Real-Time stream proxy Gnip, where for $360,000 per year they will search 50% of all content posted to Twitter. This move follows the move, as I mentioned earlier, of Twitter moving further and further away from an open platform, and more towards one they […]
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