VP Product + Marketing | Co-Founder at Ekho, Inc. @ekhoinc
- End Of Twitter's Firehose Is Just Beginning For Innovation in
Social Media Insider on
04/29/2015
Twitter recently announced that it is ending third-party agreements for the resale of its Firehose data: the full, unfiltered stream of tweets available from the service. Many people have expressed
concern that this move will directly affect third-party data resellers, and that the Firehose consolidation will be bad for Twitter in the long run. The announcement has also spawned a deluge of
doomsday headlines about the death of innovation. #Pfft.