Gravitational Shift

Gnip’s approach to getting more Publishers into the system has evolved. Over the past year we’ve learned a lot about the data delivery business and the state of its technological art. While our core infrastructure remains a highly performant data delivery bus, the way data arrives at Gnip’s front door is shifting.

We set out assuming the industry, at large (both Publishers and Consumers), was tired of highly latent data access. What we’ve learned is that data Consumers (e.g. life-stream aggregators) are indeed weary of the latency, but that many Publishers aren’t as interested in distributing their data in real-time as we initially estimated. So, in order to meet intense Consumer demand to have data delivered in a normalized, minimal latency (not necessarily “real-time”), manner, Gnip is adding many new polled Publishers to its offering.

Checkout http://api.gnip.com and see how many Publishers we have to offer as a result of walking down the polling path.

Our goal remains to “deliver the web’s data,” and while the core Gnip delivery model remains the same, polling has allowed us to greatly expand the list of available Publishers in the system.

Tell us which Publishers/data sources you want Gnip to deliver for you! http://gnip.uservoice.com/

We have a long way to go, but we’re stoked at the rate we’re able to widen our Publisher offering now that our polling infrastructure is coming online.