Twitter Evolves Plans to Make Money from ‘Fire Hose’

New York Times: Twitter has announced that it would no longer license the full stream of half a billion daily messages on its service to third-party resellers. Anyone who wants access to the stream, known as the fire hose, will soon have to license the data from Twitter directly. The move suggests that Twitter no longer wants to sell its data wholesale, just retail. It’s also a deeper sign of the company’s intention to compete with — and perhaps cut out — many middlemen that profit from helping marketers make sense of the flood of tweets to run their businesses more intelligently.