Twitter Will Start Selling Half of All Tweets for $360,000/Year

In a partnership announcement last night it was revealed that Twitter will sell commercial access to streaming tweets. Companies will be able to purchase a portion of all tweets and use the data for analytics purposes. This deal was announced on the Gnip blog, the partner that will manage the sale of streaming tweets to interested companies.

According to the Gnip blog, there will be three packages of Twitter feeds sold at the outset:

  • Twitter Halfhose – composed of 50% of all tweets
  • Twitter Mentionhose – composed of all mentions of a Twitter user, including @mentions and re-tweets
  • Twitter Decahose– composed of 10% of all tweets

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