PeopleBrowsr and Twitter Settle Lawsuit Over Access to Firehose
PeopleBrowsr, the parent company of Kred, and Twitter have settled a lawsuit over PeopleBrowsr's access to Twitter's data "firehose," the companies said today.
PeopleBrowsr, the parent company of Kred, and Twitter have settled a lawsuit over PeopleBrowsr’s access to Twitter’s data “firehose,” the companies said today.
PeopleBrowsr will retain access to Twitter’s so-called firehose of data until the end of 2013, at which point it will have to contract with one of the three authorized data resellers with which Twitter contracts.
“”We’re pleased to have this matter dismissed with prejudice, and look forward to PeopleBrowsr’s transition by the end of the year off of the Firehose to join the ecosystem of developers utilizing Twitter data via our reseller partnerships,” a Twitter spokesman said.
PeopleBrowsr said the time frame will allow it to maintain its products that use the data while it negotiates an arrangement with one of the resellers, Gnip, DataSift and Topsy.
“We’ve
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