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Gnip, Inc. was a social media API aggregation company. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, it provided data from dozens of social media websites via a single API. Calling itself the "Grand Central Station for the social web",^[1] 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]

History

Gnip was founded by Jud Valeski and Eric Marcoullier with an initial investment of $1 million.^[3] The company was based on the premise that collecting data from many social APIs simultaneously is tedious and time-consuming. It dubbed itself the "Grand Central Station for the Social Web" shortly after launch.^[1] Although the company launched with just a few basic features such as notifications,^[4] the product was designed to act as an intermediary to simplify the collection of social media data.^[5] The company used the tagline "making data portability suck less." ^[6]

By the end of 2008, Gnip had raised $3.5 million in Series B funding from investors such as the Foundry Group and First Round Capital.^[7]^[8] The service was used for projects like collecting huge volumes of data for analyzing Twitter clients.^[9]

In 2009, Gnip launched a Push API.^[10] In September, Gnip underwent a significant product overhaul accompanied by an internal restructuring of resources.^[11]

In 2010, Gnip launched their new and revised social media data collection product^[12] and released a manual describing use cases and significance of Twitter Inc's streaming API.^[13] Gnip's sources included Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Google Buzz, Vimeo, and others.^[14]

In April 2014, Gnip was acquired by Twitter for $134.1 million in mostly cash and some stock.^[15]

References

1. ^¹²{{cite web|url=http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/gnip_grand_central_station.php|website=readwriteweb.com|title=Gnip: Grand Central Station for the Social Web|accessdate=2017-09-16}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/15/us-twitter-gnip-idUSBREA3E17D20140415|author=Gerry Shih and Supantha Mukherjee|title=Twitter buys social data provider Gnip, stock soars|website=Reuters|accessdate=2017-09-16}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2008/03/14/mybloglog-founder-to-launch-new-startup-gnip-with-1-million-in-funding/|title=MyBlogLog Founder To Launch New Startup Gnip With $1 Million In Funding|website=TechCrunch|accessdate=2017-09-16}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9981914-2.html|title=Gnip to bridge the data divide for noisy Web services|website=CNET|accessdate=2017-09-16}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2008/09/30/gnip-20-launches-with-a-business-model/|title=Gnip 2.0 Launches, With A Business Model|website=TechCrunch|accessdate=2017-09-16}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.foundrygroup.com/wp/2008/07/gnip-is-ping-spelled-backwards/|title=Gnip is Ping Spelled Backwards|website=Foundry Group|accessdate=2017-09-16}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://gigaom.com/2008/11/04/gnip-raises-35-million/|title=Gigaom | Gnip Raises $3.5 Million|website=gigaom.com|accessdate=2017-09-16}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=https://venturebeat.com/2008/11/04/data-sharing-service-gnip-raises-35-million/|title=Data-sharing service Gnip raises $3.5 million | VentureBeat | | by Eric Eldon|website=venturebeat.com|accessdate=2017-09-16}}
9. ^Top Twitter Clients Revealed {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625010810/http://microblink.com/2009/02/19/top-twitter-clients-revealed/ |date=June 25, 2010 }}
10. ^{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2009/07/09/gnip-launches-push-api-to-create-real-time-stream-of-business-data/|title=Gnip Launches Push API To Create Real-Time Stream Of Business Data|website=TechCrunch|accessdate=2017-09-16}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/28/gnip-clips-60-percent-of-staff/|title=Gnip Clips 60 Percent Of Staff|website=TechCrunch|date=28 September 2009}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.feld.com/archives/2010/03/the-best-sla-ive-seen-in-a-while.html|title=The Best SLA I’ve Seen In A While - Feld Thoughts|website=feld.com|accessdate=2017-09-16}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.techcrunchit.com/2010/02/18/gnips-manual-on-the-twitter-streaming-api/|title=Gnip's Manual On The Twitter Streaming API|website=TechCrunch|accessdate=2017-09-16}}
14. ^{{cite web|url=http://gnip.com/sources|title=Gnip - Sources|website=gnip.com|accessdate=2017-09-16}}
15. ^{{cite web|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/08/11/twitter-paid-134-million-for-data-partner-gnip/|title=Twitter Paid $134 Million for Data Partner Gnip - Digits|website=WSJ|accessdate=2017-09-16}}