New York-based startup Dataminr has secured $30 million in private funding from venture capital firms to continue its work mining Twitter for tradable news.
The fundraising round is Dataminr’s third since its founding in 2009 by former Yale University classmates Ted Bailey, Jeff Kinsey and Sam Hendel.
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Five-month-old Vine is already giving Instagram a run for its social media clout.
Just a few days after Vine became available on Android, San Francisco-based Topsy Analytics reported that Vine had garnered 2.86 million shares on Twitter, vs. Instagram’s 2.17 million shares.
Back in February, Twitter finally rolled out its Windows Phone app update after months of agonizing anticipation.
And this week, the Twitter for Windows app gets another update – but this time, it boasts a feature that no other Twitter app has.
Twitter launched its certified products program last August with the goal of bringing “some of the most innovative products and services from Twitter developers to businesses and organizations that need them most.”
This came after throwing a slew of third party developers to the wolves like discarded medieval scraps, so the move was met with muted enthusiasm.
But for those lucky few to be initially selected, it was (and still is) a time to of plenty. And you can now add Offerpop to that list of winning products. You’ll be happy you did.
Twitter announced yesterday that its long-awaited Vine app for Android is now available.
Read on for the lowdown on what features the app has, including one that’s unique to Android (iPhone users, prepare to seethe with jealousy).
As we told you three weeks ago, the result of Twitter’s court battle with one “spammer,” TweetAdder, had a pretty positive result. TweetAdder has been reformed! Halleluhiah!
Twitter’s new API leaves chance for little else, of course – beyond complete destruction, so this isn’t really a surprise. But it IS something to pay attention to, because maybe Twitter isn’t as mean as it would have us believe. And if IT can give spammers a chance at redemption, can’t we all?
A month after rolling out serious updates to Twitter for Mac including retina display support, 14 additional languages, and simplified photo sharing, Twitter has tweaked its Mac app with additional notification functionality.
If you’ve spent any amount of time on Twitter, you’ve likely received a TrueTwit validation direct message. It says something like “Nelly Nameless uses TrueTwit validation service. Please validate your account.”
If you think this practice is okay, you need a Twitter direct message refresher. And when you’re done reading THAT, we’ll tell you why this “harmless annoyance” (aka TrueTwit) is anything but.
One of the announcements Google made this week at its action-packed Google I/O conference was that Google Glass now has an app for Twitter, in addition to apps for Facebook, Tumblr, Evernote, Google+, CNN, and ELLE.
Earlier this month, a tweet from an official Twitter Glass app was spotted, indicating that the roll-out of said app wouldn’t be far behind. That time has arrived.
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