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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aid: backtype
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/backtype.png
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.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/backtype/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: twitter
x-acquired-date: '2011-07-05'
x-domain-status: parked
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Social-Media
- Analytics
- Social Analytics
- Stream Processing
- Defunct
- Acquired
tags_raw:
- Company
- Social Media
- Analytics
- Social Analytics
- Stream Processing
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://backtype.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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