Update on Gnip Platform and Twitter Publisher

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.