Gnip Will Be First Authorized Reseller of Historical Twitter Data

Social media is all about real-time conversation in the present, but people seem to have finally started remembering that there’s a value to the past. On the consumer side, there are things like Facebook Timeline and the clever Timehop emails. On the business side, Gnip said it will now be the first official vendor of historical Twitter data feeds. But let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves; by “historical,” Gnip means the past 30 days. Most of Twitter’s history is still locked in the vault.