Gnip

Gnip, Inc.
Available inEnglish
Founded2008
HeadquartersBoulder, Colorado, United States
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)Jud Valeski and Eric Marcoullier
IndustrySocial Media API Aggregation
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Gnip, Inc. was a social media API aggregation company that was purchased by Twitter in 2014. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, it provided data from dozens of social media websites via a single API. Gnip was among the first social media API aggregation services.

Gnip is known as an early influencer in building the real-time web.[1] The company has also been instrumental in defining relevant web standards: Gnip's co-founder Eric Marcoullier actively advocated for adoption of open web standards, and helped define the new Activity Streams format for web data.

Subsequent to a 2010 data licensing agreement with Twitter Inc, Twitter purchased Gnip in April 2014.[2]

  1. ^ "Gnip: Grand Central Station for the Social Web". readwriteweb.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-08. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
  2. ^ Gerry Shih and Supantha Mukherjee (15 April 2014). "Twitter buys social data provider Gnip, stock soars". Reuters. Retrieved 2017-09-16.