2012 February

Monthly Archives: February 2012

Oscars 2012 – How’d Billy do?

After some controversy that led to Eddie Murphy canceling as this year’s host for the Oscars, and last year’s lackluster performance by a James Franco and Anne Hathaway combination, the Academy went for a safe bet this year. They turned to their … Continue reading

Oscars 2012 – Best Dressed

At tonight’s 84th annual Academy Awards ceremony, the focus was not only on the nominees, but even more so on their attire. As has become customary, the red carpet, which now starts more than three hours prior to the ceremony, … Continue reading

API Spotlight: Waggener Edstrom

Realtime measurements accessed from Topsy’s API are used by scores of organizations to decision content within applications, provide precise indicators of what’s trending and enable access to extensive historical tweet analysis. Our API Spotlight posts are designed to communicate who’s … Continue reading

2.5 million tweets an hour as news of Whitney Houston’s death spreads

UPDATE 2: The news was first broken in an even earlier tweet, at 4.15 pm, by @ajadiornavy, a relative of a hotel worker who reportedly found Whitney Houston: ”omgg , my aunt tiffany who work for whitney houston just found whitney … Continue reading

Super Bowl XLVI – Ad Winner

We all know that the Giants beat the Patriots in Sunday’s Super Bowl showdown but what isn’t as easy to determine is the winner of the all important ad wars during the big game.  During the record breaking 111.3 million … Continue reading

How to get old #jan25 tweets from Topsy

As we pass the first anniversary of #jan25, we’ve been getting a lot of support requests at Topsy asking how to get old tweets. So we thought we’d explain with a blog post. Can I get all my old tweets … Continue reading