November 15, 2015Some companies may open up their API to third party developers without an API license agreement ('going naked'), however this can cause problems and lead companies to later need to create a license and restrict what developers are doing.
October 11, 2015Since Twitter will no longer be selling its firehose data (full, unfiltered stream of tweets available from the service) to third party sellers, but will license the data to users of its API, it is important to be a licensee/subscriber to Twitter's API set in order to access the huge amounts of real time-data that Twitter has to offer as a social media giant.