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Swan: Likefolio ingests every brand-mentioning tweet via official Twitter partnership

Andy Swan · 775: FinTech Founder: I'll Never Raise Capital Again! · Sep 7, 2017 · at 6:26

Andy Swan, co-founder of Likefolio, explains how Likefolio gathers raw social data to derive consumer purchase intent for hedge funds and companies.

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“We have a partnership with Twitter, we take in every tweet that is mentioning a brand or product that's owned by a publicly traded company, and then”

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The claim, plainly

Likefolio has an official partnership with Twitter to ingest every tweet mentioning a brand or product owned by a publicly traded company.

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Assessment

Official announcements and third-party financial technology reporting verify that LikeFolio maintained an enterprise data partnership with Twitter to ingest public tweet data mapping brands and products owned by publicly traded companies as of September 2017. In April 2017, Twitter officially featured LikeFolio in its developer API platform roadmap as an enterprise data partner utilizing Gnip data infrastructure for investor consumer behavior alerts. Additionally, contemporary reporting in March 2017 from Wealth Management and Finovate documented LikeFolio's Brand Mapping Database, which ingested Twitter's firehose to track sentiment across all brands and products owned by publicly traded companies.

Twitter Developer Roadmap Announcement (April 7, 2017) highlighted LikeFolio as a partner built on Twitter's enterprise data infrastructure to alert investors to consumer behavior shifts.
Wealth Management (March 3, 2017) documented LikeFolio's Brand Mapping Database built on Twitter's data firehose to map every brand and product owned by publicly traded companies to ticker symbols.
Twitter Developer Case Study (August 31, 2020) confirmed LikeFolio's integration with Twitter APIs to ingest public tweet streams for financial and brand insights.

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