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November 23, 2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Twitter’s Firehose, A Missed Opportunity or a Savvy Move?

By Ben Kepes

I was in the front rows last week when Twitter and Gnip co-announced at the defrag conference that Gnip would be selling 50% of all the messages posted to Twitter for $360,000 per year, or 5% of all messages for $60,000 per year. Marshall covered the new fully over on

Tagged Application programming interface, Data stream, Defrag, Gnip, twitter |

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.