The Gnip Platform originally was built to support accessing public services and data.  In response to customer requests we soft launched support for authenticated data services over the summer and now we have fully rolled out the new service.   The difference between public and authenticated data services seems trivial, but in practice the differences are very important since authenticated services represent either business level arrangements between companies or private data access.   The new Gnip capabilities supports both of these scenarios.

As part of the new service Gnip also provides dedicated integration capacity for companies as we now are able to segment individually managed nodes on our platform for specific company accounts.   This means that a company with a developer key on Flickr, a whitelist account on Twitter, an application key on Facebook and a developer key on YouTube receives dedicated capacity on the Gnip platform to support all their data integration requirements.

Gnip will also continue to maintain the existing public data integration services which do not require authentication for access and distribution, and we expect most companies with use a blend of our data integration services.

Using the new support for authenticated data service requires contacting us at sales@gnip.com so we can enable your account. Please contact us today to leverage your existing whitelisting or authenticated account on Flickr, YouTube, Twitter or other APIs and feeds.