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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…
Posted in: Topsy in ActionWatching breaking news on Twitter: Junior Seau’s passing
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…
Posted in: Topsy in Action, Using TopsyExploring 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…
Posted in: Topsy in ActionAPI 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…
Posted in: TechnologyOscars 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…
Posted in: Topsy in ActionOscars 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…
Posted in: Topsy in ActionAPI 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…
Posted in: Topsy in Action2.5M 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…
Posted in: Topsy in ActionSuper 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…
Posted in: Topsy in ActionHow 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…
Posted in: Topsy in Action, Using Topsy