Twitter valued at $9.8 billion by GSV Capital’s investment, and that’s actually down from last year
feedproxy.google.com
on 05/11/2013
Excerpt: GSV Capital Corp. values its shares in Twitter at around $18. 50 per share, Bloomberg today reported, valuing the social service at – using a diluted share figure of 530 million – around $9. 8 billion. We know how GSV values its Twitter investment as it is a public company, and thus listed the following in its most recent 10Q:
This figure is large, but not surprising. Blackrock recently purchased shares from Twitter employees at a price that valued the company at $9 billion. The Wall Street Journal tried to make the case that Twitter was worth $10 billion using some odd math, but that the company is prized among investors is no secret.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Statistics, Twitter, Valuation
ScraperWiki lets anyone scrape Twitter data without coding
gigaom.com
on 05/10/2013
Excerpt: Summary: A new beta version of ScraperWiki makes it easy to relatively easy to scrape Twitter for certain phrases and get to work analyzing the data. It’s just one more way that data analysis is getting democratized. The Obama administration’s open data mandate announced on Thursday was made all the better by the unveiling of the new ScraperWiki service on Friday. If you’re not familiar with ScraperWiki, it’s a web-scraping service that has been around for a while but has primarily focused on users with some coding chops or data journalists willing to pay to have someone scrape data sets for them.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Harvesting, Scraping, Twitter
Twitter acquiring scalable computation startup Ubalo
www.zdnet.com
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: It's a busy day for mergers and acquisitions in the Bay Area today, and Twitter isn't going to be left out of the fray. The microblogging site is turning its focus on more complex infrastructure issues with the acquisition of scalable computation startup Ubalo. The Ubalo team confirmed the merger on its blog on Thursday, revealing only that Twitter agreed to acquire its technology and staff "a few days ago. "
Financial terms of the deal have not been revealed. Based in Palo Alto, Calif. , Ubalo is touted to provide an easier method of handling large-scale computing.... read the full post.
Tags: acquisitions, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Twitter
API v1 Retirement Date Extended to June 11, 2013
dev.twitter.com
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: We're extending the API v1 retirement date from May 7, 2013 to June 11, 2013, in order to accommodate additional blackout testing. You can find a recap of what to expect on the final retirement date here. We'll announce the date and time of the next blackout test from @twitterapi soon. If you have any questions about the retirement of REST API v1, legacy widgets, or the discontinuation of "basic auth" support in the Streaming API, please ask them in this forum.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Deprecation, Twitter
Important Update: Twitter 1.1 API and your Netvibes account
blog.netvibes.com
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: IF YOU’RE USING THE TWITTER APP ON YOUR NETVIBES BASIC DASHBOARD, PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY. Starting Monday, May 6, due to Twitter’s new API policy, you’ll need to have a Twitter account linked to Netvibes Basic to continue using Twitter apps and searches from your dashboard. Twitter will require user authentication and rate-limiting, which means not just Netvibes, but all 3rd party Twitter services, will be affected. The good news is Netvibes will update all our social apps to work seamlessly with the new Twitter API. Next Monday, we are going to roll out a product upgrade. In the meantime, old Twitter API keys have been revoked today in preparation for this update.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Netvibes, Twitter
Twitter Ads Are Finally Available To All US Businesses, No Longer Invite Only
techcrunch.com
on 04/30/2013
Excerpt: Josh Constine is a technology journalist who specializes in deep analysis of social products. He is currently a writer for TechCrunch. Previously, Constine was the Lead Writer of Inside Facebook, where he covered Facebook product changes, privacy, the Ads API, Page management, ecommerce, virtual currency, and music technology. Prior to writing for Inside Facebook, Constine graduated from Stanford University.... read the full post.
Tags: Advertising, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Twitter
Twitter Is Testing Out Its Official Google Glass App In The Wild
techcrunch.com
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: Drew Olanoff has over 10 years of marketing, PR, customer service and support, relationship building and management, product management, and technical support experience in multiple verticals. Online, including mobile. He prides himself on being a connector. Connecting people, stories, information. He has worked under some amazingly talented and gifted PR pros while working for startups as a “Director of Community”,.... read the full post.
Tags: Google Glasses, HCI, Internet-of-Things, Twitter
Twitter Boosting User Security After AP Hacking: Ryan Holmes on Bloomberg West
blog.hootsuite.com
on 04/26/2013
Excerpt: On April 23rd, the Twitter account of the Associated Press was hacked, and a false tweet about an attack on the White House was sent to almost 2 million users. The account was quickly suspended, those 2 million followers temporarily lost, and the even the stock market took a brief tumble. The potential effects of the incident on the public’s trust in AP, and in news found on social media in general, remains to be seen. But the AP hack is just the most recent in a long line of high-profile hacks and mistweets that show just how destructive a compromised social media account can be. In this video, HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes discusses how HootSuite’s security features could have helped prevent the Associated Press Twitter account hack.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Security, Twitter
Social network analysis for journalists using the Twitter API
schoolofdata.org
on 04/25/2013
Excerpt: Social Network analysis allows us to identify players in a social network and how they are related to each other. For example: I want to identify people who are involved in a certain topic - either to interview or to understand what different groups are engaging in debate. What you’ll Need:
Throughout this exercise we will use Gephi for graph analysis and visualization. Let’s start by getting a small graph into gephi. Take a look at the sample spreadsheet - this is data from a fictional case you are investigating. In your country the minister of health (Mark Illinger) recently bought 500,000 respiration masks from a company (Clearsky-Health) during a flu-scare that turned out non substantial.... read the full post.
Tags: Data, Journalism, Twitter
Twitter settles lawsuit with Peoplebrowsr over firehose data
thenextweb.com
on 04/25/2013
Excerpt: Twitter has settled a dispute with Peoplebrowsr over access to the company’s firehose of data. “We’re pleased to have this matter dismissed with prejudice, and look forward to PeopleBrowsr’s transition by the end of the year off of the Firehose to join the ecosystem of developers utilizing Twitter data via our reseller partnerships,” as Twitter spokesperson told The Next Web. The news was first reported by AllThingsD. Peoplebrowsr filed suit against Twitter last November, claiming it had spent millions of dollars and thousands of hours of development while relying on “Twitter’s promise of openness”.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, peoplebrowsr, Twitter
Excerpt: Summary: A new beta version of ScraperWiki makes it easy to relatively easy to scrape Twitter for certain phrases and get to work analyzing the data. It’s just one more way that data analysis is getting democratized. The Obama administration’s open data mandate announced on Thursday was made all the better by the unveiling of the new ScraperWiki service on Friday. If you’re not familiar with ScraperWiki, it’s a web-scraping service that has been around for a while but has primarily focused on users with some coding chops or data journalists willing to pay to have someone scrape data sets for them.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Harvesting, Scraping, Twitter
Twitter acquiring scalable computation startup Ubalo
www.zdnet.com
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: It's a busy day for mergers and acquisitions in the Bay Area today, and Twitter isn't going to be left out of the fray. The microblogging site is turning its focus on more complex infrastructure issues with the acquisition of scalable computation startup Ubalo. The Ubalo team confirmed the merger on its blog on Thursday, revealing only that Twitter agreed to acquire its technology and staff "a few days ago. "
Financial terms of the deal have not been revealed. Based in Palo Alto, Calif. , Ubalo is touted to provide an easier method of handling large-scale computing.... read the full post.
Tags: acquisitions, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Twitter
API v1 Retirement Date Extended to June 11, 2013
dev.twitter.com
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: We're extending the API v1 retirement date from May 7, 2013 to June 11, 2013, in order to accommodate additional blackout testing. You can find a recap of what to expect on the final retirement date here. We'll announce the date and time of the next blackout test from @twitterapi soon. If you have any questions about the retirement of REST API v1, legacy widgets, or the discontinuation of "basic auth" support in the Streaming API, please ask them in this forum.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Deprecation, Twitter
Important Update: Twitter 1.1 API and your Netvibes account
blog.netvibes.com
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: IF YOU’RE USING THE TWITTER APP ON YOUR NETVIBES BASIC DASHBOARD, PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY. Starting Monday, May 6, due to Twitter’s new API policy, you’ll need to have a Twitter account linked to Netvibes Basic to continue using Twitter apps and searches from your dashboard. Twitter will require user authentication and rate-limiting, which means not just Netvibes, but all 3rd party Twitter services, will be affected. The good news is Netvibes will update all our social apps to work seamlessly with the new Twitter API. Next Monday, we are going to roll out a product upgrade. In the meantime, old Twitter API keys have been revoked today in preparation for this update.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Netvibes, Twitter
Twitter Ads Are Finally Available To All US Businesses, No Longer Invite Only
techcrunch.com
on 04/30/2013
Excerpt: Josh Constine is a technology journalist who specializes in deep analysis of social products. He is currently a writer for TechCrunch. Previously, Constine was the Lead Writer of Inside Facebook, where he covered Facebook product changes, privacy, the Ads API, Page management, ecommerce, virtual currency, and music technology. Prior to writing for Inside Facebook, Constine graduated from Stanford University.... read the full post.
Tags: Advertising, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Twitter
Twitter Is Testing Out Its Official Google Glass App In The Wild
techcrunch.com
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: Drew Olanoff has over 10 years of marketing, PR, customer service and support, relationship building and management, product management, and technical support experience in multiple verticals. Online, including mobile. He prides himself on being a connector. Connecting people, stories, information. He has worked under some amazingly talented and gifted PR pros while working for startups as a “Director of Community”,.... read the full post.
Tags: Google Glasses, HCI, Internet-of-Things, Twitter
Twitter Boosting User Security After AP Hacking: Ryan Holmes on Bloomberg West
blog.hootsuite.com
on 04/26/2013
Excerpt: On April 23rd, the Twitter account of the Associated Press was hacked, and a false tweet about an attack on the White House was sent to almost 2 million users. The account was quickly suspended, those 2 million followers temporarily lost, and the even the stock market took a brief tumble. The potential effects of the incident on the public’s trust in AP, and in news found on social media in general, remains to be seen. But the AP hack is just the most recent in a long line of high-profile hacks and mistweets that show just how destructive a compromised social media account can be. In this video, HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes discusses how HootSuite’s security features could have helped prevent the Associated Press Twitter account hack.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Security, Twitter
Social network analysis for journalists using the Twitter API
schoolofdata.org
on 04/25/2013
Excerpt: Social Network analysis allows us to identify players in a social network and how they are related to each other. For example: I want to identify people who are involved in a certain topic - either to interview or to understand what different groups are engaging in debate. What you’ll Need:
Throughout this exercise we will use Gephi for graph analysis and visualization. Let’s start by getting a small graph into gephi. Take a look at the sample spreadsheet - this is data from a fictional case you are investigating. In your country the minister of health (Mark Illinger) recently bought 500,000 respiration masks from a company (Clearsky-Health) during a flu-scare that turned out non substantial.... read the full post.
Tags: Data, Journalism, Twitter
Twitter settles lawsuit with Peoplebrowsr over firehose data
thenextweb.com
on 04/25/2013
Excerpt: Twitter has settled a dispute with Peoplebrowsr over access to the company’s firehose of data. “We’re pleased to have this matter dismissed with prejudice, and look forward to PeopleBrowsr’s transition by the end of the year off of the Firehose to join the ecosystem of developers utilizing Twitter data via our reseller partnerships,” as Twitter spokesperson told The Next Web. The news was first reported by AllThingsD. Peoplebrowsr filed suit against Twitter last November, claiming it had spent millions of dollars and thousands of hours of development while relying on “Twitter’s promise of openness”.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, peoplebrowsr, Twitter
Excerpt: We're extending the API v1 retirement date from May 7, 2013 to June 11, 2013, in order to accommodate additional blackout testing. You can find a recap of what to expect on the final retirement date here. We'll announce the date and time of the next blackout test from @twitterapi soon. If you have any questions about the retirement of REST API v1, legacy widgets, or the discontinuation of "basic auth" support in the Streaming API, please ask them in this forum.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Deprecation, Twitter
Important Update: Twitter 1.1 API and your Netvibes account
blog.netvibes.com
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: IF YOU’RE USING THE TWITTER APP ON YOUR NETVIBES BASIC DASHBOARD, PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY. Starting Monday, May 6, due to Twitter’s new API policy, you’ll need to have a Twitter account linked to Netvibes Basic to continue using Twitter apps and searches from your dashboard. Twitter will require user authentication and rate-limiting, which means not just Netvibes, but all 3rd party Twitter services, will be affected. The good news is Netvibes will update all our social apps to work seamlessly with the new Twitter API. Next Monday, we are going to roll out a product upgrade. In the meantime, old Twitter API keys have been revoked today in preparation for this update.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Netvibes, Twitter
Twitter Ads Are Finally Available To All US Businesses, No Longer Invite Only
techcrunch.com
on 04/30/2013
Excerpt: Josh Constine is a technology journalist who specializes in deep analysis of social products. He is currently a writer for TechCrunch. Previously, Constine was the Lead Writer of Inside Facebook, where he covered Facebook product changes, privacy, the Ads API, Page management, ecommerce, virtual currency, and music technology. Prior to writing for Inside Facebook, Constine graduated from Stanford University.... read the full post.
Tags: Advertising, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Twitter
Twitter Is Testing Out Its Official Google Glass App In The Wild
techcrunch.com
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: Drew Olanoff has over 10 years of marketing, PR, customer service and support, relationship building and management, product management, and technical support experience in multiple verticals. Online, including mobile. He prides himself on being a connector. Connecting people, stories, information. He has worked under some amazingly talented and gifted PR pros while working for startups as a “Director of Community”,.... read the full post.
Tags: Google Glasses, HCI, Internet-of-Things, Twitter
Twitter Boosting User Security After AP Hacking: Ryan Holmes on Bloomberg West
blog.hootsuite.com
on 04/26/2013
Excerpt: On April 23rd, the Twitter account of the Associated Press was hacked, and a false tweet about an attack on the White House was sent to almost 2 million users. The account was quickly suspended, those 2 million followers temporarily lost, and the even the stock market took a brief tumble. The potential effects of the incident on the public’s trust in AP, and in news found on social media in general, remains to be seen. But the AP hack is just the most recent in a long line of high-profile hacks and mistweets that show just how destructive a compromised social media account can be. In this video, HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes discusses how HootSuite’s security features could have helped prevent the Associated Press Twitter account hack.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Security, Twitter
Social network analysis for journalists using the Twitter API
schoolofdata.org
on 04/25/2013
Excerpt: Social Network analysis allows us to identify players in a social network and how they are related to each other. For example: I want to identify people who are involved in a certain topic - either to interview or to understand what different groups are engaging in debate. What you’ll Need:
Throughout this exercise we will use Gephi for graph analysis and visualization. Let’s start by getting a small graph into gephi. Take a look at the sample spreadsheet - this is data from a fictional case you are investigating. In your country the minister of health (Mark Illinger) recently bought 500,000 respiration masks from a company (Clearsky-Health) during a flu-scare that turned out non substantial.... read the full post.
Tags: Data, Journalism, Twitter
Twitter settles lawsuit with Peoplebrowsr over firehose data
thenextweb.com
on 04/25/2013
Excerpt: Twitter has settled a dispute with Peoplebrowsr over access to the company’s firehose of data. “We’re pleased to have this matter dismissed with prejudice, and look forward to PeopleBrowsr’s transition by the end of the year off of the Firehose to join the ecosystem of developers utilizing Twitter data via our reseller partnerships,” as Twitter spokesperson told The Next Web. The news was first reported by AllThingsD. Peoplebrowsr filed suit against Twitter last November, claiming it had spent millions of dollars and thousands of hours of development while relying on “Twitter’s promise of openness”.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, peoplebrowsr, Twitter
Excerpt: Josh Constine is a technology journalist who specializes in deep analysis of social products. He is currently a writer for TechCrunch. Previously, Constine was the Lead Writer of Inside Facebook, where he covered Facebook product changes, privacy, the Ads API, Page management, ecommerce, virtual currency, and music technology. Prior to writing for Inside Facebook, Constine graduated from Stanford University.... read the full post.
Tags: Advertising, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Twitter
Twitter Is Testing Out Its Official Google Glass App In The Wild
techcrunch.com
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: Drew Olanoff has over 10 years of marketing, PR, customer service and support, relationship building and management, product management, and technical support experience in multiple verticals. Online, including mobile. He prides himself on being a connector. Connecting people, stories, information. He has worked under some amazingly talented and gifted PR pros while working for startups as a “Director of Community”,.... read the full post.
Tags: Google Glasses, HCI, Internet-of-Things, Twitter
Twitter Boosting User Security After AP Hacking: Ryan Holmes on Bloomberg West
blog.hootsuite.com
on 04/26/2013
Excerpt: On April 23rd, the Twitter account of the Associated Press was hacked, and a false tweet about an attack on the White House was sent to almost 2 million users. The account was quickly suspended, those 2 million followers temporarily lost, and the even the stock market took a brief tumble. The potential effects of the incident on the public’s trust in AP, and in news found on social media in general, remains to be seen. But the AP hack is just the most recent in a long line of high-profile hacks and mistweets that show just how destructive a compromised social media account can be. In this video, HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes discusses how HootSuite’s security features could have helped prevent the Associated Press Twitter account hack.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Security, Twitter
Social network analysis for journalists using the Twitter API
schoolofdata.org
on 04/25/2013
Excerpt: Social Network analysis allows us to identify players in a social network and how they are related to each other. For example: I want to identify people who are involved in a certain topic - either to interview or to understand what different groups are engaging in debate. What you’ll Need:
Throughout this exercise we will use Gephi for graph analysis and visualization. Let’s start by getting a small graph into gephi. Take a look at the sample spreadsheet - this is data from a fictional case you are investigating. In your country the minister of health (Mark Illinger) recently bought 500,000 respiration masks from a company (Clearsky-Health) during a flu-scare that turned out non substantial.... read the full post.
Tags: Data, Journalism, Twitter
Twitter settles lawsuit with Peoplebrowsr over firehose data
thenextweb.com
on 04/25/2013
Excerpt: Twitter has settled a dispute with Peoplebrowsr over access to the company’s firehose of data. “We’re pleased to have this matter dismissed with prejudice, and look forward to PeopleBrowsr’s transition by the end of the year off of the Firehose to join the ecosystem of developers utilizing Twitter data via our reseller partnerships,” as Twitter spokesperson told The Next Web. The news was first reported by AllThingsD. Peoplebrowsr filed suit against Twitter last November, claiming it had spent millions of dollars and thousands of hours of development while relying on “Twitter’s promise of openness”.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, peoplebrowsr, Twitter
Excerpt: On April 23rd, the Twitter account of the Associated Press was hacked, and a false tweet about an attack on the White House was sent to almost 2 million users. The account was quickly suspended, those 2 million followers temporarily lost, and the even the stock market took a brief tumble. The potential effects of the incident on the public’s trust in AP, and in news found on social media in general, remains to be seen. But the AP hack is just the most recent in a long line of high-profile hacks and mistweets that show just how destructive a compromised social media account can be. In this video, HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes discusses how HootSuite’s security features could have helped prevent the Associated Press Twitter account hack.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Security, Twitter
Social network analysis for journalists using the Twitter API
schoolofdata.org
on 04/25/2013
Excerpt: Social Network analysis allows us to identify players in a social network and how they are related to each other. For example: I want to identify people who are involved in a certain topic - either to interview or to understand what different groups are engaging in debate. What you’ll Need:
Throughout this exercise we will use Gephi for graph analysis and visualization. Let’s start by getting a small graph into gephi. Take a look at the sample spreadsheet - this is data from a fictional case you are investigating. In your country the minister of health (Mark Illinger) recently bought 500,000 respiration masks from a company (Clearsky-Health) during a flu-scare that turned out non substantial.... read the full post.
Tags: Data, Journalism, Twitter
Twitter settles lawsuit with Peoplebrowsr over firehose data
thenextweb.com
on 04/25/2013
Excerpt: Twitter has settled a dispute with Peoplebrowsr over access to the company’s firehose of data. “We’re pleased to have this matter dismissed with prejudice, and look forward to PeopleBrowsr’s transition by the end of the year off of the Firehose to join the ecosystem of developers utilizing Twitter data via our reseller partnerships,” as Twitter spokesperson told The Next Web. The news was first reported by AllThingsD. Peoplebrowsr filed suit against Twitter last November, claiming it had spent millions of dollars and thousands of hours of development while relying on “Twitter’s promise of openness”.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, peoplebrowsr, Twitter
Excerpt: Twitter has settled a dispute with Peoplebrowsr over access to the company’s firehose of data. “We’re pleased to have this matter dismissed with prejudice, and look forward to PeopleBrowsr’s transition by the end of the year off of the Firehose to join the ecosystem of developers utilizing Twitter data via our reseller partnerships,” as Twitter spokesperson told The Next Web. The news was first reported by AllThingsD. Peoplebrowsr filed suit against Twitter last November, claiming it had spent millions of dollars and thousands of hours of development while relying on “Twitter’s promise of openness”.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, peoplebrowsr, Twitter
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