Backtype

BackType was a San Francisco social-media analytics startup (backed by 500 Startups/500 Global) whose BackTweets product helped publishers measure the reach and conversion of their Tweets and content for clients including The New York Times, HubSpot, bitly, and SlideShare. The BackType team also built Storm, the distributed real-time stream-processing system later open-sourced as Apache Storm. Twitter acquired BackType on July 5, 2011 and folded the team into its platform group; the standalone product and public API were discontinued after the acquisition. The company is defunct and backtype.com is now a parked domain, so there is no live developer portal, documentation, or API surface to enrich.

Backtype is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Social Media, Analytics, Social Analytics, and Stream Processing.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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name: Backtype
description: BackType was a San Francisco social-media analytics startup (backed by 500 Startups/500 Global) whose BackTweets
  product helped publishers measure the reach and conversion of their Tweets and content for clients including The New York
  Times, HubSpot, bitly, and SlideShare. The BackType team also built Storm, the distributed real-time stream-processing system
  later open-sourced as Apache Storm. Twitter acquired BackType on July 5, 2011 and folded the team into its platform group;
  the standalone product and public API were discontinued after the acquisition. The company is defunct and backtype.com is
  now a parked domain, so there is no live developer portal, documentation, or API surface to enrich.
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created: '2026-07-17'
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tags:
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- Analytics
- Social Analytics
- Stream Processing
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  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence