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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...

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Incredible 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...

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Who 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...

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Dreamforce 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...

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Simplicity 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...

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Boulder 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...

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Enhanced 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...

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Social 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...

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Taming 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...

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Taming 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...

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Tweeting 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...

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Tweeting 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...

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Expion 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...

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Webinar 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...

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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...

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Incredible Innovation in Boulder Valley – Results from the IQ Awards

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Who Knew First: Steve Jobs or Aron Pinson?

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Twitter, 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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