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Datasift and Twitter Equals Big Data


Datasift and Twitter have entered into a deal for your tweets. Datasift bargained for the whole fire hose of data. If you tweet and it’s public, they’re recording it. Big data? That’s what @nik calls what they store at Datasift. So what can Datasift do with all this data? Just about anything. Mentioned in the…

Twitter ReTwweet Integration: Project ReTweet


Twitter has had retweeting since it began.  Sure it’s only been formalized over the last year.  Lots of the clients didn’t incorporate retweet(RT) behavior selections until recently. But soon that may all be for naught. Twitter staff are hard at work designing in retweet functionality.  That’s right. The age of RT @name may soon be…

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