Twitter Spawned 50,000 Apps To Date, Will Open Up Firehose For More

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by vrobancho • 17 years ago

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bumblebird• 17 years ago

So if everyone is to have access to 'firehose', why did ms+goog pay for it? :/

mechanical_fish• 17 years ago

They get a year-long headstart.

lpgauth• 17 years ago

Support.

anApple• 17 years ago

To get access doesn't mean you get access for free!

It's pretty clear that their business model is build on providing that feed to other companies and charging them for the data they provide to ehtir customers.

tibbon• 17 years ago

I'd be most interested in finding why Twitter selected some partners and not others.

I spoke with some people that had Firehose and said that they mainly just had to sign lengthy legal documents, but that they didn't really pay for it (or not much).

Then we hear of MSFT/GOOG paying for it.

But I had a startup that was providing strong value to the community (http://webecologyproject.org) and we offered to pay for it- whatever they were asking, and they said, "No, we'll call you when we think you should have it". Maybe we'd have offered the same money as Google- they didn't know what we'd pay. But our money wasn't good enough.

Clearly, I didn't do a good enough job of BD there, but I was talking with their API team nearly every day in the mailing list and in private emails. I wasn't having lunch with Biz, but honestly we were too busy researching and developing for that.

cmoscoso• 17 years ago

Applications that run outside the browser is really a trend when it comes to twitter apps, good to know that they still support this view.

alexro• 17 years ago

Numbers aside, how many useful apps are there? The ones you'd use on daily basis?

Twitter Spawned 50,000 Apps To Date, Will Open Up Firehose For More

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