What We Are Up to At Gnip

As the newest member of the Gnip team I have noticed that people are asking a lot of the same questions about what we are doing at Gnip and what are the ways people can use our services in their business.

What we do

Gnip provides an extensible messaging platform that allows for the publishing or subscribing of events and data from across the Internet, which makes data portability exponentially less painful and more automatic once it is set up. Because Gnip is being built as a platform of capabilities and not a web application the core services are instantly useful for multiple scenarios, including data producers, data consumers and any custom web applications. Gnip already is being used with many of the most popular Internet data sources, including Twitter, Delicious, Flickr, Digg, and Plaxo.

How to use Gnip

So, who is the target user of Gnip? It is a developer, as the platform is not a consumer-oriented web application, but a set of services meant to be used by a developer or an IT department for a set of core use cases.

• Data Consumers: You’ve built your pollers, let us tell you when and where to fire them. Avoid throttling and decrease latency from hours to seconds.
• Data Producers: Push your data to us and reduce API traffic by an order of magnitude while increasing distribution through aggregators.
• Custom web applications: You want to embed or publish content to be used in your own application or for a third-party application. Decide who, or what, you care about for any Publisher, give us an end-point, and we push the data to you so you can solve your business use cases, such as customer service websites, corporate websites, blogs, or any web application.

Get started now

By leveraging the Gnip APIs, developers can easily design reusable services, such as, push-based notifications, smart filters and data streams that can be used for all your web applications to make them better. Are you a developer? Give the new 2.0 version a try!