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Obama vs Bieber – the Power of Twitter
In a rare turn of events, President Obama was referenced more on Twitter on May 9th at Noon PDT than Justin Bieber (by a whopping factor of 8). All joking aside, this spike in mentions is hard to miss, even … Continue reading
Watching an event unfold in real-time on Twitter: the passing of Junior Seau
As many have sadly reported today, Junior Seau, the beloved former NFL player, passed away at his home in Oceanside, CA. The sudden nature of his passing resulted in a flood of Twitter activity expressing grief, shock and condolences for … Continue reading
Exploring SXSW with Topsy data
This year was Topsy’s debut at SXSW! Topsy was one of the data providers for the Twitter #FEED exhibit hosted at the AMOA Arthouse. After working with Beak Labs, our creative partner, over the past few weeks, we just had … Continue reading
API Spotlight – Roamz
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
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