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Take Control of Your Twitter Data: Introducing Crowdbooster (YC S10) Pro Exports

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  4. You will not attempt or encourage others to:

    A. sell, rent, lease, sublicense, redistribute, or syndicate the
       Twitter API or Twitter Content to any third party for such
       party to develop additional products or services without prior
       written approval from Twitter;

- http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms

But you never know.

We don't believe that spreadsheets of data about your own Twitter account are a useful way to "develop an additional product or service" and that's not how we're pitching the feature. This feature is based on requests from several professional social media managers among our beta users, who wanted a way of exporting the data to give their management reports on their Twitter usage. If we find out that anyone is paying to download our spreadsheets for the purpose of re-importing the spreadsheets to build their own Twitter-related product or service, we will take appropriate action.

Thanks for the note of caution, though. There are risks to developing a service on top of a third-party platform, and we strive to maintain a good relationship with Twitter to mitigate those risks.

We were doing similar with the 140kit and got shut down fyi. We were making it easier for the average person to access their streaming API and we were adding value through additional data analysis and graphs. Twitter wants to make money now it seems from the data, and is realizing that its a commodity for them to control tighter.

I thought we had developed a good working relationship with Twitter and their API team, but it doesn't seem that was the case.

Crowdbooster is lots of fun. I've been using it on my own piddly twitter account and a mega twitter account, @dropbox. Knowing which tweets resonate the most with the audience is great. Hint: people liked Dropquest.

http://twitter.com/ikirigin

http://twitter.com/dropbox

http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=659

ThinkUp has a similar feature, it indexes your twitter activity (and facebook) and allows you to export and analyze it as you see fit.

http://thinkupapp.com/

I've been using CrowdBooster to see how my @thathigh tweets are engaging users -- it's pretty awesome. Highly recommend.

Twapperkeeper just rant into this same issue. I'd wager you'll do the same. http://twapperkeeper.wordpress.com/

That logo looks REALLY familiar.

Is Posterous down?

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