Customer Spotlight – Klout
Providing Klout Scores, a measurement of a user’s overall online influence, for every individual in the exponentially ever-growing base of Twitter users was the task at hand for Matthew Thomson, VP of...
View ArticleIncredible Innovation in Boulder Valley – Results from the IQ Awards
One of the reasons that we at love working in the Boulder Valley is because of the incredible and talented companies that make up the local business ecosystem. Given the depth and quality of innovative...
View ArticleWho Knew First: Steve Jobs or Aron Pinson?
While Steve Jobs’ resignation yesterday had investors anxiously watching how $AAPL fared in trading, we at Gnip were having fun watching a different ticker- the realtime Twitter feed. As you can see...
View ArticleDreamforce Hackathon Winner: Enterprise Mood Monitor
As we wrote in our last post, Gnip co-sponsored the 2011 Dreamforce Hackathon, where teams of developers from all over the world competed for the top three overall cash prizes as well as prizes in...
View ArticleSimplicity Wins
It seems like every once in a while we all have to re-learn certain lessons. As part of our daily processing, Gnip stores many terabytes of data in millions of keys on Amazon’s S3. Various aspects of...
View ArticleBoulder Chamber of Commerce: Why Gnip Joined
It took awhile, but Gnip’s now a Boulder Chamber of Commerce (@boulderchamber) Member. We joined after a pattern of clear value to our particular industry became clear. In August of this year they...
View ArticleEnhanced Filtering for Power Track
Gnip is always looking for ways to improve its filtering capabilities and customer feedback plays a huge role in these efforts. We are excited to announce enhancements to our PowerTrack product that...
View ArticleSocial Data: A Beacon in Natural Disasters
Social media for natural disasters and health epidemics provides a valuable window into what is happening on the ground. Social media data can help track diseases and serve as a powerful method of...
View ArticleTaming The Social Media Firehose, Part I
This is the first post in our series on what a social media “firehose” (e.g. streaming api) is and what it takes to turn it into useful information for your organization. Here I outline some of the...
View ArticleTaming The Social Media Firehose, Part II
In part I, we discussed some high-level attributes of the social media firehose and what is needed to digest the data. Now let’s collect some data and perform a simple analysis to see how it goes. On...
View ArticleTweeting in the Rain, Part 1
If you would have told me a few years ago that one day I’d be comparing precipitation and social media time-series data, I would have assumed you were joking. For 13 years at OneRain I helped develop...
View ArticleTweeting in the Rain, Part 2
Searching for rainy tweets To help assess the potential of using social media for early-warning and public safety communications, we wanted to explore whether there was a Twitter ‘signal’ from local...
View ArticleExpion Joins Plugged In to Gnip and Adds Tumblr & GetGlue as Data Sources
This week I’m on a panel at Expion’s third annual “Mission Possible” Conference in Raleigh, which makes it even more fun to announce that Expion is now a Plugged In to Gnip partner and will be adding...
View ArticleWebinar Recap: Social Resonance Analysis with mBLAST
Yesterday, we hosted a webinar with our Plugged In to Gnip partner mBLAST. The focus of the webinar was on how resonance tracking and analysis can be used to not only identify the people who create...
View ArticleCustomer Spotlight – Klout
Providing Klout Scores, a measurement of a user’s overall online influence, for every individual in the exponentially ever-growing base of Twitter users was the task at hand for Matthew Thomson, VP of...
View ArticleIncredible Innovation in Boulder Valley – Results from the IQ Awards
One of the reasons that we at love working in the Boulder Valley is because of the incredible and talented companies that make up the local business ecosystem. Given the depth and quality of innovative...
View ArticleWho Knew First: Steve Jobs or Aron Pinson?
While Steve Jobs’ resignation yesterday had investors anxiously watching how $AAPL fared in trading, we at Gnip were having fun watching a different ticker- the realtime Twitter feed. As you can see...
View ArticleTwitter, you've come a long way baby… #8years
Like a child’s first steps or your first experiment with pop rocks candy, the first ever Tweet went down in the Internet history books eight years ago today. On March 21st, 2006, Jack Dorsey,...
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