aid: backtype
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: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- 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