Late on Friday, Twitter announced that it would no longer license the full stream of half a billion daily messages on its service to third-party resellers. …
This is far different from four years ago, when Twitter struck licensing deals with Gnip and DataSift. Back then, Twitter didn’t see much value in the data and focused more on selling ads. Now analyzing tweets for everything from stock tips to voter preferences has become big business, and Twitter wants a bigger piece of the profits. CONT.
Vindu Goel, New York Times