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Moody: Gnip serves 90% of Fortune 500 companies
“When I say we serve 90% of the Fortune 500, I've gotten a few questions like, oh, really, because there's some super boring companies in the Fortune 500. Like, are they really using social data? And the answer is they are”
Moody: The U.S. government uses social media data for intelligence gathering
“The U.S. Government is a huge consumer of social data and in some use cases that your head probably would immediately go to or around, you know, intelligence and so forth.”
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.”
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.”
Moody: Blog comments offer a distinct sentiment profile from primary content
“Comments represent the world's reaction to a point of view, so you get a very different sentiment around that data.”
Moody: Social data curves repeat consistent patterns for expected vs unexpected events
“And the thing about this and why this is important is because these curves appear over and over again. Doesn't matter what the type of event is. We're seeing some general characteristics around expected versus unexpected.”
Moody: Social data will integrate into the $40B business intelligence industry
“The entire, you know, there's a forty billion dollar business intelligence industry that is built around these traditional data warehouses and data marts that are driving a lot of the businesses within large companies Clearly, social is going to be entering in…”
Moody: Boulder, Colorado, has the highest PhDs per capita in America
“They're actually, per capita, have more PhDs than any other city in the United States.”
Moody: Gnip normalizes over 100 social feeds into a single stream
“So what Gnip fundamentally does is we take data from lots of different social sources, I think there's something like over a hundred feeds of different social sources. We bring that data in, we normalize it so that you consume it as if it were one stream, not …”
Moody: Gnip serves eight of the nine largest social monitoring firms
“We're now serving, social media monitoring was the first industry that really adopted this data for businesses purposes, business purposes, and we're serving eight of the nine largest.”