On: Twitter Acquires Gnip

[thefreeman]

Gnip also integrates with a number of other services as well

[fvryan → thefreeman]

Will these sites want Twitter to have firehose access to their data? For example Tumblr, Foursquare, Wordpress? They also offer Facebook data, but it is a managed public API connection.

[thefreeman → fvryan]

It's a very good question. I really have no idea what the implications are and probably depend on each company.