Twitter has just informed us that due to the pivot, they are terminating their agreement with Scoopler/JustSpotted. Here’s the full statement:

JustSpotted, then known as Scoopler, had previously licensed Twitter’s ‘firehose’ data feed of all public tweets for its real-time search engine, Scoopler.com. JustSpotted.com is not the product we licensed, and we have terminated their agreement.

Fair enough, it is a total and complete pivot, so it is certainly reasonable to Twitter to pull their data feed. What’s odd is that JustSpotted didn’t think about this problem beforehand.

Some of this might have to do with the fact that this morning, Hollywood Reporter ran a misleading story titled “Twitter investor backs celebrity-tracking site“. While it’s technically true that angel investor Ron Conway does back JustSpotted, that’s because he invested a year ago when it was still Scoopler. This story makes it sound as if a prominent investor in Twitter is investing in JustSpotted because of the new idea and the use of Twitter. That’s not the case.

That story also quotes JustSpotted co-founder AJ Asver as saying, “We’ve been working very closely with Twitter for two years. We’re one of a handful of companies that has that sort of relationship with them.” Yeah, Twitter probably didn’t like that quote too much.

Update: Here’s the statement from JustSpotted on the matter:

The relationship we had with Twitter was for our real-time search product.  Justspotted is a new product which is not associated with this relationship.  JustSpotted continues to aggregate updates from lots of sources including Twitter, where we have always been using their publicly available APIs.

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Authors: MG Siegler

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