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Twitter Gives Seattle-area Tool CrowdEye the Firehose
Monday, March 1st, 2010
When Twitter announced they’d be giving basically unfettered access to their data stream to a select number of companies, you can bet that local player CrowdEye got a bit giddy.
When we first checked in on CrowdEye back in June, they were just getting started, but already were showing value in the realm of real-time Twitter search. Now, over half a year later, CrowdEye is about to get more data thrown at them than they probably could have imagined – and they join an elite group in doing so.
To clarify, Twitter puts the number of applications accessing their rate-limited, freely available offerings at more than 50,000. Today, CrowdEye joins Ellerdale, Collecta, Kosmix, Scoopler, twazzup and Chainn Search (not launched) as the newest batch of partners to gain access to the holy grail of Twitterdom – the Firehose.
We’ll be watching these inventive partners in the near future and can’t wait to see what they do with the data.
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