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Twitter Turns On The Firehose For Realtime Search Startups

When it comes to getting access to all the data that flows through Twitter, there are the 50,000 apps that drink from Twitter’s Streaming API, which is subject to various limits. And then there are the chosen few who get the full unlimited firehose of data, the more than 50 million Tweets a day [...]

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Tue, March 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Man Checks-In Everywhere But Foursquare Rehab

Earlier today, I was ousted as the mayor of the Googleplex Patio on Foursquare. Turns out, it was this guy. KrazyDad was a man on a mission: to show the holes in Foursquare’s check-in based system. And boy did he.
To be clear, anyone who has used Foursquare quite a bit is likely well aware of [...]

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Tue, February 16 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Despite The Price, Twitter’s Chirp Tickets Selling Out “Within Hours.” Another Batch Released.

The tickets for Twitter’s first official conference, Chirp, are selling quickly — despite the $469 price. Twitter is planning to release about 800 tickets for the event total but is putting them up for sale in waves. The first batch, about 1/3rd of the tickets, went on sale last month and sold out “within hours,” [...]

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Fri, February 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments