That's explicitly not true. You are bound by both the Twitter API Rules and Gnip's TOS
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > By the way, if you get Twitter data from Gnip, you are not bound to > the Twitter TOS. Your business and contractual relationship is with > Gnip, not Twitter. > > On Nov 17, 3:28 pm, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The minimum Gnip charge is $500 per month, with a minimum of a year >> contract, if you want to use Gnip in a production application. >> >> And that's before the -- still unknown -- additional access charges >> for the Twitter feeds. >> >> You can't use Gnip in a production application if you are not an >> incorporated business, so that excludes access for many developers, >> even if they can afford the charges. >> >> Maybe there's a secondary market here, for an incorporated business to >> provide access for one-man developers to Gnip data for a fee. Meaning, >> Reseller Inc subscribes to Gnip and gets the data feeds, and resells >> them to one-man developers. I haven't checked Gnip's TOS to see if >> that's expressly prohibited. >> >> On Nov 17, 2:51 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zn...@borasky- >> >> research.net> wrote: >> > Ryan, what about User Streams? I'm building something around User >> > Streams but it is a "non-display" analytics application. Am I at risk >> > for Twitter inserting another business into *my* data stream as well? >> > And I'm curious how some of the other Streaming consumers are going to >> > react to insertion of a monopoly middleman into their data source. I >> > briefly dealt with Gnip a while back and found their API hard to use >> > and their pricing exorbitant. >> > -- >> > M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb >> >> > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul >> > Erdos > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
