A social media analytics company has won access to Twitter's data after the social network attempted to cut it off, an outcome that may come as a surprise to third-party developers who feel jerked around by Twitter's capriciousness when it comes to data access.
Twitter finalized an out-of-court settlement today with PeopleBrowsr, the parent company of social influence startup Kred, which will receive access to Twitter's "firehose" of data for the rest of the year. "We're excited, we're ecstatic," PeopleBrowsr CEO Andrew Grill told The Verge. "It'll be business as usual for our clients."
At the time, Twitter dismissed the suit as preposterous
PeopleBrowsr sued Twitter in November, alleging that shutting off the data connection violated...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/25/4266692/after-suing-twitter-peoplebrowsr-wins-data-access-back-in-settlement
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