GigaomGnip adds search API to its Twitter data service
Gnip, one of a handful of companies with direct access to the Twitter firehose, is now letting its customers query 30 days worth of tweets via a new search API. CEO… Read more »
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Gnip, one of a handful of companies with direct access to the Twitter firehose, is now letting its customers query 30 days worth of tweets via a new search API. CEO… Read more »
This is an interesting patent application, in part because of its techniques and in part because — like many technology-related patent applications — it’s hard to see how it’s particularly novel… Read more »
DataSift, one of the two companies (along with Gnip) granted real-time access to the Twitter firehose, now offers real-time and historical analysis of Tumblr data. While it’s best-known for Twitter, DataSift… Read more »
If you’ve ever wanted to see who follows you on Twitter, where they live and what they do, but don’t have a clue how to utilize the Twitter API, it’s your… Read more »
New research out of Carnegie Mellon University shows that analyzing fans’ tweets can help gamblers make better bets on NFL games. Sometimes. Their technique wasn’t very effective at picking winners or… Read more »
This post from Slate is spot on, in my humble opinion. It might be overkill, but I can say the same about my own posting habits, and did last year. (I… Read more »
Researchers have released a tool that lets anyone track the whereabouts of Twitter and Instagram users who allow geotagging of their posts. They want social media users to be aware that… Read more »
Researchers have a devised a method for identifying fake Twitter accounts that proved highly accurate across 27 popular black-market merchants. With Twitter’s cooperation, they spotted and deleted millions of accounts, using… Read more »
FBI CISO Patrick Reidy gave Black Hat attendees some advice on detecting insider threats inside their agencies or companies. Essentially, he said, there’s no Edward Snowden profile that should set off… Read more »
Like every social media company, Pinterest had to build its own graph in order to keep track of how all its users — and their interests — are related. Here’s how… Read more »