Comments on: What Is Taking a Sip From the Twitter Firehose Going to Cost?

By: Twitter Hatching Another Baby Business Model?

Twitter Hatching Another Baby Business Model? — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:28:18 +0000

[...] are you going to make money?” Twitter has taken a liking to this revenue model thing. It will charge for access to its full data stream. It will feature promoted tweets in search results and eventually other [...]

By: What’s on Deck for Twitter’s Platform: App Promotion and Another Dev Conference

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:45:29 +0000

[...] guys in Russia building relevance and discovery tools.” While the Firehose was first doled out in the name of real-time search, Sarver said today just 10 to 12 of the companies using it are in search, and the others do a [...]

By: Twitter Charging More Companies For Access To Firehose

Twitter Charging More Companies For Access To Firehose — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:41:48 +0000

[...] about paying for access to the unrestricted firehose. While public information about these deals have been sparse, sources we spoke with said they were paying six figure monthly fees. With the scaling challenges [...]

By: Real-Time Search Better for News Than Products – GigaOM

Real-Time Search Better for News Than Products – GigaOM — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:55:46 +0000

[...] doing their best to innovate to make search quicker, in part by incorporating Twitter’s full “firehose” of results. Google, in addition to being the biggest search engine on the planet, has the deepest and longest [...]

By: John Kalucki

John Kalucki — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:58:40 +0000

All Twitter accounts have Streaming API access and can receive various slices of the Firehose, including following a list of users, tracking a keyword, finding all Geotagged tweets in a location, and also a random sampling of Tweets.

By: Twitter Turns Firehose on Little Guys | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:49:30 +0000

[...] price of that access? Unknown, but I can’t imagine it’s much. Twitter says its charging companies according to an as-of-yet undisclosed scalable licensing scheme. For the likes of Google and Microsoft, that means millions of dollars — enough to make [...]

By: bernardlunn

bernardlunn — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:39:15 +0000

This is the key question. I also want to know if non-firehose will become metered? What if I only want access to low volume? To a specific list? It seems like that will remain free. But it is important for start-ups building their platform to know.

By: Twitter's Drive for Revenue Ramps Up | Twitterrati

Twitter's Drive for Revenue Ramps Up | Twitterrati — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:17:30 +0000

[...] As GigaOm’s Liz Gannes points out, the big question now is now much Twitter will charge for its API. It makes sense that smaller users will likely pay nothing or a modest amount, while high-volume API users (Tweetdeck, Seesmic?) will pay significant amounts. [...]

By: Bradford

Bradford — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:41:54 +0000

It’s funny that there’s been an explosion of “Big Data” stories floating around lately. First in the Economist, and now GigaOm. Not to mention the steady flood all over Tweets…

At Drawn to Scale (http://www.drawntoscalehq.com), we’ve built a platform to solve the challenges of dealing with data like the Twitter Firehose puts out. We make it easy to process, store, and query/search all this data, in real-time.