News Story Twitter to open 'firehose' to developers

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Fri, 12/11/2009 - 09:55

What if you had access to the millions of tweets that flow to and from Twitter users every day? Perhaps you'd build something like PostRank , which amasses them along with other data from social media sites to trackcyber-reaction to posted articles.

Or maybe you would filter them by demographic and figure out a way to sell targeted banner ads.

The sky's the limit, so you might want to start noodling.

According to Twitter platform director Ryan Sarver,...


 

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