Very odd that this is branded as cutting off intelligence agencies then - this seems more like they are cutting off another company from the firehose like they did to DataSift when they acquired Ginp.<p>Dataminr didn&#x27;t provide access to the firehose, iirc, but had a really good event detection product. I had actually heard of them because I heard CNN was a very happy user of the product.<p>EDIT:
&gt;<i>The move doesn’t affect Dataminr’s service to financial industry, news media or other clients outside the intelligence community. The Wall Street Journal is involved in a trial of Dataminr’s news product.</i><p>Read the article, and it seems media companies still have access. I guess Twitter is telling another company who their customers can and can&#x27;t be.