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04-15-2014, 05:31 PM
Twitter Acquires Data Startup Gnip
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Twitter is acquiring Gnip, a social data provider.
The value of the deal was **t immediately disclosed, but Gnip has raised $6.6 million in funding.
"We want to make our data even more accessible, and the best way to do that is to work directly with our customers to get a better understanding of their needs. To that end, we have agreed to acquire Gnip, a leading provider of social data and a long-standing Twitter data partner," Twitter wrote in a blog post (https://blog.twitter.com/2014/twitter-welcomes-gnip-to-the-flock)
Gnip was founded in 2008 and claims to be Twitter's first data partner. It works with a variety of clients including Tumblr, WordPress and Foursquare. It also provides Twitter data to the Library of Congress. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/15/twitter-buys-gnip/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Twitter is acquiring Gnip, a social data provider.
The value of the deal was **t immediately disclosed, but Gnip has raised $6.6 million in funding.
"We want to make our data even more accessible, and the best way to do that is to work directly with our customers to get a better understanding of their needs. To that end, we have agreed to acquire Gnip, a leading provider of social data and a long-standing Twitter data partner," Twitter wrote in a blog post (https://blog.twitter.com/2014/twitter-welcomes-gnip-to-the-flock)
Gnip was founded in 2008 and claims to be Twitter's first data partner. It works with a variety of clients including Tumblr, WordPress and Foursquare. It also provides Twitter data to the Library of Congress. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/15/twitter-buys-gnip/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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