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Twitter bought Crashlytics for 'well over' $100M, correcting $38M reports
“It was yeah, it wasn't 38. It was over a hundred, well over a hundred.”
Shorty Awards built the first Twitter social voting system in 2008
“So we built the first ever system. Now that's commonplace, you know, you want to vote, share it on social media. No one had done that before, so when we launched it, within 24 hours it became the top trending term on Twitter”
The Tie leverages Twitter's firehose to calculate real-time crypto sentiment
“We're an official Twitter partner. So we leverage their fire hose and calculate real time investor sentiment on, you know, hundreds of cryptocurrencies. And we feed that we sell APIs to hedge funds and other market participants.”
Leber: Twitter cut automation tolerance by 80% to 200 actions daily
“It took longer than three weeks to figure out that it was a reduction in the automation threshold. It went from a thousand actions per day down to about 200 per day. So they did an 80% reduction in their tolerance.”
Glueck: Foursquare Powers Location Data for Uber, Apple Maps, and Snapchat
“Mapping understanding of a 160 plus countries has, you know, winds up in being used in a lot of your favorite apps, Like Uber, and Apple Maps, and Snapchat, and Twitter, and Pinterest, and Samsung phones”
Swan: Likefolio ingests every brand-mentioning tweet via official Twitter partnership
“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”
Frrole uses official Twitter and Facebook APIs rather than web scraping
“We have data partnerships with both Twitter and Facebook. So, so we have access to you know official access to these API. So it's a no scraping part there at all”
Himler: Twitter Acquired Influencer Startup Niche for $20 Million
“He started a company called Niche out of New York, N-I-C-H-E dot C-O. And basically he matched Brands with those that have big influence, a lot of followers on Vine, on Twitter, on Instagram, and he built this business, and then Twitter bought his company, he'…”
Lockwood: Google Makes Up to $50 Per User Annually, Facebook $12–$18
“I think, ah, Google make as much as, like, 50 bucks a year per user. Facebook it was around about, sort of, 12, 18 maybe. Twitter a bit smaller.”