Dataminr Granted Full Access To Twitter Firehose
Twitter has granted full access to its firehose to the social media data mining company rumored to have predicted the death of Osama Bin Laden. The company, Dataminr, plans to use the public tweets “to create actionable signals for enterprise clients.” Wow.
Being granted access to Twitter’s Firehose is HUGE. Only a few companies have Firehose access, including one we posted about recently, Gnip. As ars technica tells us:
The Firehose is not a publicly available resource, and the level of access it provides is required by very few applications, according to Twitter.
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