area served worldwide founder s jud valeski and eric marcoullier industry social media api aggregation available in english 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 edit 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 edit a b c gnip grand central station for the social web reuters twitter buys social data provider gnip stock soars mybloglog founder to launch new startup gnip with 1 million in funding gnip to bridge the data divide for noisy web services gnip 2.0 launches with a business model gnip is ping spelled backwards gnip raises 3.5 million data sharing service gnip raises 3.5 million top twitter clients revealed gnip launches push api to create real time stream of business data gnip clips 60 percent of staff the best sla i ve seen in a while gnip s manual on the twitter streaming api popular sources on gnip twitter paid v t e twitter clients services and applications favstar gnip hootsuite pwytter seesmic simplytweet tween tweetbot tweetdeck tweetie twimight twitdom twitpic twitterrific executives jack dorsey ceo anthony noto cfo katie jacobs stanton vp gabriel stricker cco board omid kordestani executive chairman jack dorsey interim ceo peter chernin peter currie peter fenton evan williams marjorie scardino software flockdb meerkat mysql periscope starling vine mergers and acquisitions backtype bluefin labs dasient gnip mitro namo media posterous summify trendrr tweetdeck tweetie vine whisper systems other black twitter censorship shorty awards twitter bomb twitter usage by public figures topsy labs retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gnip & oldid 734502219 categories aggregation websitesapplication programming interfacescompanies based in boulder coloradotwitter acquisitions navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 14 august 2016 at 19 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view