FourSquare gives exclusive access to firehose to Gnip

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

I don’t understand why, but apparently FourSquare gave Gnip exclusive access to its firehose. That seems like an awful lot of power to give to some outside company. Why would FourSquare do this? Maybe they didn’t have the resources to build a billing system? I’m grasping at straws here.

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    http://blog.gnip.com/gnip-foursquare-partnership/
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