As we posted last month there are some changes coming to the way we license use of the Gnip platform.  See: Gnip Licensing Changes Coming in August.

These updates will be put in place this Friday, August 28th.    The impact of the new licensing will be the following for our existing users.

1. The Gnip Community Edition license will be disabled as it is no longer being offered.   Accounts that were created before August 1st will be set to inactive and no longer will be able to access the Gnip API or Developer Website.   If your company is in the process of evaluating Gnip for a commercial project and needs a longer amount of time to complete your project please contact us at info@gnip.com and we can extend your account on a longer trial.
2. Gnip Standard Edition user accounts using the Commercial, Non-profit and Startup partner license options will continue to be available as they are not impacted by the change on Friday.   If you are a standard edition user and we accidentally your disable your account on Friday please contact us at info@gnip.com and we will reactivate the account.
3. New users who created an account starting after August 1st will receive an email notification on the day their 30-day trial expires informing them they need to contact Gnip to obtain the appropriate license for their commercial, non-profit or partner use case.

We appreciate all the companies and developers who have built solutions using Gnip and look forward to continuing to deliver real-time data to power these solutions.   By making these adjustments in our licensing we will be able to focus on innovating the Gnip Platform and supporting the many companies and partners we are fortunate to work with every day.

We have some new “Powered by Gnip” badges available for our customers, partners and anyone looking to add something pretty to their website.

The badges are available on our website here: http://www.gnip.com/partners

We have three styles to chose from depending on your color preference, and here is the orange/white style.

We wanted to provide an update on how people are able to interact with Twitter via the Gnip platform since people creating new filters will notice a change in behavior as of today.

Gnip has been working with Twitter for several months. This has given developers another option for how they access events and data from the Twitter APIs. During this time Twitter was making their meta-data available to a limited set of partners like Gnip, as they state in their blog post from earlier this week, this meta-data access was on an experimental basis. In addition, Twitter announced in their blog post that they are working on a solution that will better allow people to use a service like Gnip for data-driven applications, but the new solution is not ready. At Gnip we plan to continue to work with Twitter as they bring this new solution to market.

In the interim people who create new filters on the Gnip platform will notice that these filters only provide access to the Gnip Notifications features, and not the Gnip Data Streams features. This change was put in place for new filter creation until the updated solution for data becomes available from Twitter. Existing filters that use the Gnip Data Streams features will continue to function normally.

At Gnip we see this as yet another example of how we are focusing on delivering a standard way for developers to access all the web’s data. We will continue to work on with our partners and the industry to provide reliable tools and services that allow you to get real-time access to the data you need when and where you need it. However, in some cases we in the industry will experience growing pains as the social Internet continues to expand and innovate.