electromute

Hey Geuis, I work at Gnip. We have a bunch our larger customers highlighted on our web site who like the breadth of data we offer. (see the solution spotlight at http://www.gnip.com/solutions/spotlight).

We also have some smaller mashups powered by Gnip, such as tweetstats, storytellr, etc.

I'm happy to brainstorm with you if you have some ideas on how you might want to use Gnip! We don't fit every use case, but we sure do solve a lot of pain points for a lot of folks!

Send me a note, ingrid @ gnip.com

Thanks, Al.

Yes, if you've ever tried to create a mashup using data from Twitter, digg, delicious, etc., you know the problem is that you have to poll their entire data set (without exceeding their api request limits) to get at the data you are trying to track.

With Gnip, you get an abstraction layer so you can create a filter based on usernames, for instance. When these users do something, like tweet, we post that data back to you.

In this scenario, you no longer have to poll arbitrarily for needles in haystacks--we push the needles to you when they occur.

Hope that helps! If anyone is interested in utilizing data from the social graph to create their app (or if you are interested in publishing data you have for public use), we have a Group list: http://groups.google.com/group/gnip-community as well as documentation on our site, www.gnipcentral.com and a set of client libraries (we are currently evolving) to help facilitate such endeavors.

Cheers!