Twitter: All Developers Will Get Access to the Firehose in Early 2010

[mcxx]

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_at_leweb.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29&utm_content=Seesmic

[marknutter]

I've had firehose access at the highest level they give to your average developer for a few months now. We've been using it to grab every link on Twitter, but we still miss quite a bit due to rate-limiting (I would say 1-5%). I wonder if this firehose access is every single tweet. If so, it'd be worth paying for.

[timdorr]

For those interested in preparing: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation

Just so you know, the "Gardenhose" (a spam and relevance filtered stream) is already available: http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.xml

[alexro]

does that mean Twitter has no idea how to make money off it's inventory other than selling it in bulk?

[leej → alexro]

no it is not. it's the easisest and the one that cant irritate end users.

[robryan]

If ever they could monetize it would be with firehose, not something I think it's really worth giving away for free.

[FreeRadical → robryan]

I think they recently said they're going to go with ads (that users will apparently love).

[mseebach → robryan]

It doesn't say that the access would be free of charge.

[anApple → mseebach]

And they will be certainly charging access.