What Is Taking a Sip From the Twitter Firehose Going to Cost You?

March 2nd, 2010 admin

Twitter today gave seven real-time search and discovery companies that “range from funded startups to part-time, one-man operations” access to 100 percent of its tweets. Twitter’s “Firehose” is a valuable asset; the company has made partners like Google, Microsoft and most recently Yahoo pay to use it in their own real-time search. Today’s announcement is part of a new, yet-to-be-standardized initiative of metered access for people and companies that build on Twitter. From what we can gather, the startups aren’t yet paying…


Originally posted on GigaOM

 
  Related Posts
How Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Think About Real-Time Search
How Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Think About Real-Time Search
Perhaps inspired by the speed of the medium, the integration of real-time tweets and other updates into major search engines has happened more quickly than I might have expected. It’s pretty amazing that raw Twitter posts already show up by default right on Google search results pages (they’re a little more buried on Bing and Yahoo... 
PeerPong Asks for Expert Advice on Twitter
PeerPong Asks for Expert Advice on Twitter
PeerPong , a new Q&A site with an adorable name, is launching a public beta today. The company’s premise to bring users’ questions to qualified experts given their history talking about that topic online — right now, on Twitter. Yes, it’s yet another Q&A company looking to build up page views for its portal, in... 
Admit It, Microsoft: You Suck at the Web
Admit It, Microsoft: You Suck at the Web
Microsoft is many things, but one thing it’s not is a successful web company. And it’s time Redmond faced up to that. For 15 years, Microsoft has tried time and again to become a major player on the web. It started by integrating an AOL-like dial-up content service in Windows 95. It shifted to a Yahoo-like web portal model three years later.... 
Video: The Ellerdale Project Makes Sense of Twitter
Video: The Ellerdale Project Makes Sense of Twitter
Arthur van Hoff helped architect Java at Sun, co-founded Marimba, and engineered the application platform at TiVo. Now he’s identifying trends in Twitter messages at  The Ellerdale Project . Is that a fitting project for such a big brain? In this video interview recently shot at the GigaOM office, van Hoff explains why real-time search... 
Twitter Goes Mobile on the Weekend
Twitter Goes Mobile on the Weekend
SocialFlow , a New York-based social media marketing startup backed by Betaworks recently studied one of its clients with more than 500,000 Twitter followers and came up with some unique lessons. The company looked at clicks on the client account’s Bit.ly links for two months to see trends in the way people use Twitter and the content they... 
What I Learned at Twitter’s First Chirp Conference
What I Learned at Twitter’s First Chirp Conference
Twitter’s Chirp conference this week was ultimately an overdue kickoff of the company’s developer community. With more than 100,000 applications created on its platform to date, it’s frankly amazing that Twitter hadn’t formalized its road map and addressed competition with developers before. Here are the excuses: Twitter... 
How Y Combinator Is Remaking Silicon Valley in Its Image
How Y Combinator Is Remaking Silicon Valley in Its Image
Y Combinator put on a tour de force Thursday. After five impressive years’ worth of molding fresh batches of startups, it packed 150-odd people with money into a room and schooled them in the art of giving its companies funding. The incubator’s second Angelconf , held at its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. today, packed the room... 
Twitter Annotations Are Coming — What Do They Mean For Twitter and the Web?
Twitter Annotations Are Coming — What Do They Mean For Twitter and the Web?
Twitter announced a series of new features at its Chirp conference in April, including Twitter Places and an advertising program called Promoted Tweets. But the one that has the most potential to change the way the social network functions in fundamental ways is Annotations, which Twitter said would be rolled out in the second quarter of the year.... 
Long Tail Inventory Boosts Other Sales: Yahoo
Long Tail Inventory Boosts Other Sales: Yahoo
The benefits of the long tail may go beyond selling large quantities of niche items. Having a comprehensive inventory makes your customers more satisfied and more likely to patronize you again, according to a  new paper from Yahoo presented earlier this month at a web search and data mining conference . The Yahoo research came out of data sets... 
Twitter to Build Data Center to Beach the Fail Whale
Twitter to Build Data Center to Beach the Fail Whale
Twitter has apparently decided to put the millions it has raised toward building its own data center, according to a blog post published this evening by the social messaging service. The data center, which will be located around Salt Lake City, Utah, should come online in the fall. The company also says it plans to “bring additional Twitter... 
  Related Tweets from Twitter
  Related News from Digg
No comments yet.

Spam Protection by WP-SpamFree

TOP