Twitter?s Response To PeopleBrowsr Lawsuit: ?This Is Contracts 101?

When the news broke earlier this evening that PeopleBrowsr had won a temporary restraining order protecting its access to Twitter's firehose of data, Twitter provided a terse response saying that it plans to "vigorously defend" itself in the broader legal case. Now the company has given me its actual filing in response to PeopleBrowsr ? technically, the filing focuses on the restraining order (an issue on which Twitter lost), but it also lays out the other side of the story, and some of Twitter's broader arguments. As a refresher, Twitter is trying end its contract with PeopleBrowsr, directing the company to work with third-party data resellers like Gnip or DataSift. PeopleBrowsr argues that the move would do serious harm to its business, that Twitter is stifling competition, and that Twitter has an "obligation to provide an open ecosystem." (That last claim may raise some eyebrows, but PeopleBrowsr tries to back it up by including public and private comments from Twitter employees about their interest in an open ecosystem, and it says it built its business around the assumption that the ecosystem would remain open.)

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