Twitter

includes Twitter Firehose, Twitter Search

22 statements across 19 episodes · 9 bullish · 4 bearish · 19 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2013 by Hilary Mason · said 102 times in 51 episodes since 2013 · across every show →

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Everything said about Twitter, oldest first

Dec 5, 2013
Assertion Partly supported
Mason: Link half-life is 2.8 hours on Twitter versus 3.1 on Facebook
“We found that for Twitter, it's short, it's 2.8 hours. For Facebook, it's a little longer, about 3.1 hours.”
Hilary Mason Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 10:06 Hilary Mason, Bitly // Data Driven NYC #3 // Feb 2012
Dec 5, 2013 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chris Moody: Twitter is the fastest breaking news source outside Bloomberg
“Twitter has become kind of the quickest way to find out about, ah, breaking news outside of Bloomberg.”
Chris Moody Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 7:20 Chris Moody, Gnip // Data Driven NYC #3 // Feb 2012
Dec 5, 2013 bullish
Opinion
Moody: Twitter is ideal for PR crisis management due to reaction speed
“Something like Twitter is great for that, right? Because, again, it's super quick reaction time, and I don't need to know a lot of details.”
Chris Moody Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 8:51 Chris Moody, Gnip // Data Driven NYC #3 // Feb 2012
Dec 5, 2013 positive
Assertion Supported
Moody: Twitter chose Gnip as its first commercial data partner
“They chose Gnip to be the first partner To bring this stuff, ah, to market.”
Chris Moody Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 6:03 Chris Moody, Gnip // Data Driven NYC #3 // Feb 2012
Dec 5, 2013
Assertion Partly supported
Lotan: TweetDeck was built at Betaworks and sold to Twitter
“TweetDeck was actually built at Betaworks and then sold to Twitter.”
Gilad Lotan Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 1:13 Gilad Lotan, Betaworks // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013
Dec 19, 2013
Insight
Wilson: Three core differences define Twitter versus Facebook
“I think the important ones are default public versus default private follower versus friending. One-way follow model versus a two-way following model. And open fire hose versus closed fire hose. I think those three things tell you everything you need to know a…”
Fred Wilson Dec 19, 2013 ▶ 16:55 Fred Wilson, USV // Data Driven NYC #18 // Sep 2013 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
May 27, 2014
Assertion Supported
Tan: Sift Science has 25 employees and 175 customers including Twitter and Uber
“We have 25 people out in San Francisco just closed our Series B recently, and we have about a 175 customers around the world, including Twitter, Square, Match.com, OpenTable, Uber, Airbnb, Kickstarter and others.”
Jason Tan May 27, 2014 ▶ 0:19 Jason Tan, Sift Science // Data Driven #26 // April 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Sep 22, 2014 bullish
Assertion Supported
Knaup: Apache Mesos scales to tens of thousands of nodes and powers Twitter
“And so today, it scales to tens of thousands of nodes. It actually runs, it's the basis for most of Twitter's production infrastructure today.”
Tobi Knaup Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 8:39 Tobi Knaup, Mesosphere // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Sep 22, 2014 positive
Assertion Supported
Knaup: Mesosphere, Twitter, and Airbnb are major committers to Apache Mesos
“It's a top-level Apache project. And, you know, Mesosphere, Twitter, and Airbnb are major committers on the project.”
Tobi Knaup Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 8:46 Tobi Knaup, Mesosphere // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Oct 16, 2014
Assertion Supported
Kleiner Perkins' largest investment check ever was into Twitter
“The largest check that the KP's ever written was in the Twitter.”
Mike Abbott Oct 16, 2014 ▶ 2:34 Mike Abbott, KPCB // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Nov 23, 2015 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Le-Quoc: Vast majority of industry still struggles with data visualization
“Not the sort of advanced customer of ours, you know, say, you know, Airbnb or Twitter or, Spotify, but the vast majority of the industry is, is still kind of struggling with that.”
Alexis Le-Quoc Nov 23, 2015 ▶ 2:48 Data: Monitoring to Analytics to Understanding // Alexis Le-Quoc, Datadog
Feb 21, 2016 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Neustar maintained data partnerships with Facebook and Twitter for predictive analytics
“We have a partnership with Facebook. We have a partnership with Twitter also. We use their data, ah, to be able to run our analysis as such.”
Satya Ramachandran Feb 21, 2016 ▶ 19:59 Large Scale Decision Support Systems // Satya Ramachandran, Neustar (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Mar 18, 2016
Assertion Supported
Fenton invested in Twitter when it had only 25 employees
“You invested when the company was only 25 people strong.”
Matt Turck Mar 18, 2016 ▶ 0:17 A Fireside Chat with Benchmark General Partner Peter Fenton (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
Mar 24, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Foursquare processes one billion daily API calls to power Twitter location
“Twitter runs on our hosted platform, which does about a billion API calls a day, and if anyone in the world wants to tag a tweet with the location where they are standing, that uses all of our machine learning to understand where the phone is and tag the tweet…”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 3:52 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Jul 13, 2017 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Twitter and LinkedIn's open-source data catalogs go unused without governance
“Reason why I say that is because I've talked to all the high-tech companies like Twitter, LinkedIn, et cetera, and they all have their catalog projects. Many of them have actually open sourced catalog initiatives, But then you find that nobody's actually using…”
Stan Christiaens Jul 13, 2017 ▶ 18:26 AI, Big Data, and Data Governance // Stan Christiaens, Collibra (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Sep 28, 2017 bearish
Opinion
Twitter's Magic Pony acquisition marked the peak of AI talent premiums
“But I think that's, you know, that was the sort of tailing off of the, for me, the Twitter Magic Pony deal was kind of the, ah, the tail end of this absurd, extraordinary premium on, on deep learning, and then now, more and more, it's becoming just part of the…”
Bradford Cross Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 11:32 AI Startup Predictions // Bradford Cross - A fireside chat with Matt Turck (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Mar 2, 2018
Assertion Supported
Stent: SEC declared Twitter valid for official corporate disclosures
“SEC has declared that Twitter, in particular, can be used to provide company, official company announcements.”
Amanda Stent Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 3:38 Text Analytics for Finance // Amanda Stent, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Mar 2, 2018 negative
Opinion
Johnson: Twitter holds an incredibly valuable but underutilized dataset
“I think Twitter is a great example where it's not that they're not doing nothing, they're not doing, they're doing some things with the data, it's just they could do a lot more. I think it's one of the most valuable data sets on the planet, but one would think…”
Mark Johnson Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 6:55 Every Business Will Need a Data Refinery // Mark Johnson, Descartes Labs (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Feb 20, 2020
Disclosure
Horowitz: a16z employees who publicly trash startups on Twitter are fired
“One of the things I tell everybody at New Employee Orientation is if you get on Twitter, like some VCs, and start shitting all over somebody's company, you know, saying, oh, they'll never make any money, that's a dumb idea, I can't believe they called it bodeg…”
Ben Horowitz Feb 20, 2020 ▶ 33:36 Fireside Chat Part II: Ben Horowitz (a16z) on Culture with Matt Turck (FirstMark) at Data Driven NYC
Sep 14, 2023 bullish
Opinion
Taylor: Data science and AI startups should prioritize LinkedIn over Twitter
“Twitter might get you more impressions, I think. And you might get your message out wider. So I don't think it has to be an either or, but if I was going to spend a lot of my time, especially if I was a data science or AI startup, I would learn where my audien…”
Carly Taylor Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 28:22 From Xbox to Databricks: Carly Taylor’s Rebel Path in Data Science & Gaming AI
Feb 1, 2024
Disclosure
Duderstadt: Nomic's enterprise sales funnel is literally Twitter, Discord, then sales
“Our sales funnel is literally like Twitter to discord to enterprise sale.”
Brandon Duderstadt Feb 1, 2024 ▶ 20:17 How Nomic AI Is Driving The Open Source Revolution
Feb 22, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Handy: Social media pricing backlash did not cause mass dbt cancellations
“Our business as a result has not really had a hiccup. But if you only existed on Twitter or LinkedIn you would think that you know, our customers desired us on mass and we're every single one of them was livid and canceled, but that just like didn't happen.”
Tristan Handy Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 46:25 Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
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