Twitter Ending Data Reseller Relationships

By Nathan Gilliatt on Apr 10, 2015

Twitter  has announced a plan to move all users of Twitter data from its two remaining data resellers to a direct relationship with Twitter. Since the acquisition of its reseller partner Gnip  last year, Twitter already controlled the majority of the market for its data.

In a blog post Friday, the company stated its intention to require all commercial users of Twitter data to acquire that data directly from Twitter, a move that is expected to be completed by mid August:

The next step in working directly with data customers is to transition everyone receiving raw data for commercial use from other data resellers to a direct relationship with Twitter. Twitter immediately started this transition process after acquiring Gnip last May, and we expect to finish the transition by the middle of August this year.

After that transition is completed, companies using raw Twitter data for commercial use—to build products, to analyze internally, and to serve other commercial purposes—will need to have a direct relationship with Twitter. For current Twitter partners and customers, it’s business as usual—they will continue to consume the same data they currently do from Twitter’s APIs. For customers who are still working on transitioning, that process will simply require you to begin consuming data via a relationship with Twitter instead of a reseller.

• Gnip/Twitter blog post
• DataSift blog post 2 3
• DataSift investor blog post

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