Meet the Gatekeepers to Twitter and Facebook Data
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Social data is the nectar all brands want to drink, but tapping into the source can be a costly and arduous undertaking.
Consider Facebook and Twitter, the suppliers with the most scale to offer. They have drastically different approaches when it comes to meting out access to the millions of conversations occurring daily on their platforms. And in Twitter’s case, the approach seems subject to constant change.
Twitter’s “firehose” of tweets is already an important revenue stream for the company, and it takes a cut from sanctioned resellers that furnish raw data to enterprise customers. But it’s also been looking to restrict the firehose access of existing partners. Facebook, meanwhile, has nothing resembling a firehose and keeps the majority of conversations taking place on its pages under wraps. Brands that want to know what’s being said about them can use listening tools to tap into public posts that haven’t been hidden by privacy settings, but no more.
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