Re: "Twitter is not making money"
I wasn't going to add to this thread being a developer group and all,
but according to Twitter... (we spend more money than we make)
http://twitter.com/about#money
Q: How do you make money from Twitter?
A: Twitter has many appealing opportunities for generatin
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Jennie Lees wrote:
> I've been working on commercialising sentiment analysis research,
> specifically tuned to microblogs and social media, and my investigations -
> both academic and talking to potential customers - lead me to believe it
> really is worth doing.
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:02 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
wrote:
> Man, it is so good to hear this from someone who's actually done it!
> The other point, though, is that the "real thing", even traffic /
> social network analysis, is compute-resource intensive and requires a
> kind of programming k
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Andrew Badera wrote:
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> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:57 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
> wrote:
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>>
>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Kevin Mesiab
>> wrote:
>> > A per follower charge is a fast way to obliterate the value of Twitter
>> as a
>> > platform.
>>
>> I d
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:57 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Kevin Mesiab
> wrote:
> > A per follower charge is a fast way to obliterate the value of Twitter as
> a
> > platform.
>
> I disagree. Businesses are using Twitter to listen to their customers
> and
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:02 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
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> Netflix, even without the contributions of the contest teams, is doing
> pretty well too. ;-)
Different problem - they're aggregating votes, not trying to interpret
language. Although it is certainly possible that some of the co
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
> If you think there are no well-funded, successful companies in this domain,
> take a look at Nielsen/Buzzmetrics. They've been at this for more than 10
> years. They acquired my patents, from a startup where we demonstrated basic
> sentiment
Bayesian filters are actually pretty good at "sentiment analysis" - of
course the quality of the classification is based upon the corpus of
information fed into the filters.
I implemented this for a while with http://flixpulse.com for movie
review tweet analysis. It wasn't perfect, but the filte
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:53 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
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>
> And there is
> http://twittersentiment.appspot.com/, a research project by some grad
> students at Stanford. Perhaps you've heard of two other Stanford grad
> students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page?
Gilt by association?
Nick
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Kevin Mesiab wrote:
> A per follower charge is a fast way to obliterate the value of Twitter as a
> platform.
I disagree. Businesses are using Twitter to listen to their customers
and to engage with them. I think a business should be allowed to
follow as many cus
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:49 AM, David Fisher wrote:
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> Show me these killer companies doing great NLP with social networks.
NLP, especially sentiment analysis, is hard. The fact that tweets
aren't English but an evolving language makes it harder. But there are
certainly companies, for example
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:49 AM, David Fisher wrote:
>
> Show me these killer companies doing great NLP with social networks. I
> find the ones that are doing stuff right now themselves are far behind
> the curve and not really pushing stuff to the edge. They are often
> marketing companies that
A per follower charge is a fast way to obliterate the value of Twitter as a
platform.
However, if any of you think that Twitter hasn't already defined and begun
executing upon their monetization strategy, you are woefully naive. ;)
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:29 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>
Show me these killer companies doing great NLP with social networks. I
find the ones that are doing stuff right now themselves are far behind
the curve and not really pushing stuff to the edge. They are often
marketing companies that have hired one NLP guy (and underpaid them)
and are just pushing
On Jul 16, 1:14 pm, Stuart wrote:
> Twitter have a business plan, we're just not worthy enough to know all
> the details. What we know so far is that they're planning to launch a
> premium account type with a bunch of tools to aid brand and engagement
> tracking.
I've got news for you ... Twitt
Don't feed the trolls. Name a Venture backed startup that DOESNT run
on VC for the first few years. Ok? Right. Stupid topic. Lets move on
and talk about things that matter (ie. development)
On Jul 16, 4:34 pm, Andrew Badera wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
>
> > On T
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
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>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Stuart wrote:
>>
>>
>> Twitter have a business plan, we're just not worthy enough to know all
>> the details. What we know so far is that they're planning to launch a
>> premium account type with a bunch o
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Stuart wrote:
>
>
> Twitter have a business plan, we're just not worthy enough to know all
> the details. What we know so far is that they're planning to launch a
> premium account type with a bunch of tools to aid brand and engagement
> tracking. If Twitter can ma
2009/7/16 Michael Yardley :
>
> They are just running on Venture Capital.When the money runs out they
> will have to start chraging.You cannot run a business for FREE.People
> should have to pay to Twitter.So much a Tweet. LOL
You really need to do some research before trolling like this.
Twitte
charge per API query? Oopps
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
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>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Michael Yardley
> wrote:
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>>
>> They are just running on Venture Capital.When the money runs out they
>> will have to start chraging.You cannot run a business for FREE.Peo
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Michael Yardley wrote:
>
> They are just running on Venture Capital.When the money runs out they
> will have to start chraging.You cannot run a business for FREE.People
> should have to pay to Twitter.So much a Tweet. LOL
Yeah, just like Google started charging
OMG, I had no idea. Are you the Kroll guy?
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Michael Yardley wrote:
>
> They are just running on Venture Capital.When the money runs out they
> will have to start chraging.You cannot run a business for FREE.People
> should have to pay to Twitter.So much a Tweet. LO
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