Twitter’s Streaming API is used by around 50,000 appplications, within set limits. However, now it is understood that a few new startups search applications have been allowed to have full unlimited access to its data, which includes data of 50 million Tweets a day.
Previously only search engines such as Google or Bing, were allowed to have the unrestricted access to twitter’s data. The Search engines type of applications need it more than other applications in order to index and serve up results in realtime. Following today’s news, the new unrestriced access has been provided to startups such as: Ellerdale, Collecta, Kosmix, Scoopler, twazzup, CrowdEye.
Subsquently Twitter does receive income from the big players i.e. Google and Bing. In regards to search engine startups only it regards them as requiring a helping hand and thus allows them to use its data for free.
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