Gnip has offered the same basic licensing options since we launched the 2.0 version of the platform last September.   During that year we have learned a lot about how companies and individual developers use the Gnip platform to discover, access, integrate and filter social and business data for their applications.     In that time the daily volume of activities flowing across the platform has grown from thousands of activities across a handful of services to 100 to 150 million activities in a given day across almost forty different data sources.

Gnip Platform License Updates:  In the second half of August Gnip will introduce several changes to our licensing options that will impact existing users and new users

• Gnip will be provide several licensing options for the Standard Edition service
  • Commercial license:  This is the default license for all commercial uses of the Gnip Platform
  • Non-profit license:  This option will be available to companies and organizations with an appropriate 501(c) status
  • Startup Partner license:  This option is available to companies that meet the qualification terms of the partner program.
  • Trial license:  This option will be the default experience for new users and provide 30 days to evaluate the platform.
• The Community Edition of the Gnip Platform will being retired since we discovered over the last year that the TOS for the Community Edition made the option a poor fit for real-world company use cases.   We believe any small company using the Gnip Platform Community Edition should be able to move to our Startup Partner Program.

Impact on existing and new users: The most obvious change for new users that sign up after these licensing updates is that their accounts will be active for 30 days.   All existing users on the Gnip Platform will have their existing accounts convert to a 30 day trial account when the new licensing is rolled out during the second half of August.

Planning for the licensing updates: If your company meets any of the regular license options please contact us at sales@gnip.com or info@gnip.com to discuss moving to the Commercial, Non-profit or Startup Partner licenses.