Building A Platform: One Feature at a Time.

As Gnip evolves, we are amazed, almost daily, at what folks build using our API. My favorite thing each morning is reading the search.twitter.com feed for Gnip. Seeing how we’re being used is so cool, and much of the time we’re used in ways we didn’t anticipate. When that starts happening, you realize you’re building a Platform with a capital ‘P’.

A recent product that caught our eye was “tweetrush” (out of Cork, Ireland); http://tweetrush.com/. They’re using Gnip to build statistical information/visualization around Twitter. Look for more cool stuff from these guys; the current product is just the beginning!

The vast majority of products leveraging Gnip, do so to make existing aspects of their product better (e.g. lower the latency of activity notification), but it’s really cool when we see entire products built up around our offering.

As the wheel turns.