Category Archives: Twitter

Is Twitter Obligated to Preserve Politicians’ Deleted Tweets?

Posted on June 10, 2015 by

Politicians everywhere are probably celebrating like crazy this week. The Sunlight Foundation, an organization dedicated to making politics accountable and transparent, was just told by Twitter that it would no longer have access to its developer API, which enabled the site’s … Continue reading →

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What the end of the Twitter-DataSift partnership means for customers

Posted on April 15, 2015 by

Disclosures Let’s get this out of the way right up front. DataSift is a client of mine at Altimeter Group. I am closely connected to Twitter via my role as a board member of the Big Boulder Initiative, of which … Continue reading →

Posted in Analytics, Big Boulder Initiative, DataSift, Facebook, Sentiment Analysis, Social Analytics, Social Data, Social media, Social media measurement, Twitter, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

TED Talk: What do we do with all this big data?

Posted on October 20, 2014 by

On September 23, 2014, I had the honor of presenting a talk on Big Data at TED@IBM at the SFJazz Center in San Francisco, California alongside an amazing group of people, including Altimeter’s own Charlene Li. It was an incredible day; … Continue reading →

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Twitter Buys Gnip: What’s Next for the Social Data Ecosystem?

Posted on April 15, 2014 by

Today, Twitter announced its intent to purchase social data provider Gnip, one of its certified reseller partners, for an undisclosed sum. It’s not a surprising move in many ways, given the increasing pressure on Twitter to monetize its content. At the … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data, DataSift, Gnip, Innovation, NTT, Social Data, Social Graph, Social media, Topsy, Twitter, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Social Data Market Momentum: It’s Not About the Firehose

Posted on December 4, 2013 by

In the past year, social data has continued to wend its way into organizations of all types, from large enterprise to small business to media and entertainment and the public sector. We’ve seen use cases far past marketing into product … Continue reading →

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The Emerging Social Data Ecosystem

Posted on September 18, 2013 by

It’s Social Data Week, and I spent Monday at DataSift’s San Francisco conference. Like Big Boulder (which is produced by Gnip and is now entering its third year), Social Data Week is focused on the emerging dialogue around social data, its stakeholders, … Continue reading →

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