"Twitter are gambling that they are now powerful enough to say "No more 3rd party clients"
Isn't it more: No more free data for 3rd party clients? (past a certain amount) Companies can still buy unlimited realtime data through twitter's monitization child DataSift. Meaning the death of free 3rd party apps. Maybe now that they have to charge a good chunk we will get better 3rd party apps?
Not certain about DataSift, but we used Gnip and part of the terms was you couldn't display tweets to your users directly off the firehose. I'd imagine DataSift has a similar restriction.
Besides that; neither give you access to private tweets or DMs, so you pretty much have to use the API for a client of any worth.
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"Twitter are gambling that they are now powerful enough to say "No more 3rd party clients"
Isn't it more: No more free data for 3rd party clients? (past a certain amount) Companies can still buy unlimited realtime data through twitter's monitization child DataSift. Meaning the death of free 3rd party apps. Maybe now that they have to charge a good chunk we will get better 3rd party apps?
I haven't really looked at it, but I don't think DataSift is intended for twitter clients to use.
Not certain about DataSift, but we used Gnip and part of the terms was you couldn't display tweets to your users directly off the firehose. I'd imagine DataSift has a similar restriction.
Besides that; neither give you access to private tweets or DMs, so you pretty much have to use the API for a client of any worth.
Are Twitter and DataSift linked in any way in terms of their company ownership etc?