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.

Next time  you login to the Gnip Developer Site at http://api.gnip.com you will notice that we made some tweaks to the layout and design.     The prior site was first pulled together right before the v1.0 went live last summer and it had stayed the same up until this update.  (yeah, we should have updated it sooner….)

In the updated design we added more explanations of where to start for newer users, where to go for information and cleanup up the interface.   We are planning a more complete update in the future and at that time will add more functionality so if there are wish lists out there please do let us know.