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Show HN: Discovery for Periscope, Meerkat, Twitch(sympl.tv)
2 points by photorized 11y ago|1 comments
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by photorized 11y ago
Given the crazy events happening today, the best way to test this is to type 'Baltimore' in the Broadcast Description search field. There are currently 189 people broadcasting from Baltimore live.
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Show HN: SYMPL Search for Periscope, Meerkat, YouNow(sympl.tv)
3 points by photorized 11y ago|1 comments
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by photorized 11y ago
Founder here. Our main goal was to make data collection easy, and the analysis even easier - for SMB, and hopefully startups. Some of the scenarios that are supported out of the box: - detect a PR crisis http://blog.itrendcorpora
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Show HN: iTrend, Extracting Competitive Intelligence from Twitter Data(itrend.tv)
2 points by photorized 11y ago|1 comments
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by photorized 11y ago
As "web stats" - sure. GA is a great alternative to parsing your own server logs, which doesn't make sense to SMB. But ROI? GA will tell you absolutely nothing about why nobody cares about your product or service, or why you
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by photorized 11y ago
GA is a fantastic tool. Problem is (not really a problem, but a fact of life) most of today's interactions that are pertinent to your product's success (and the ROI) are taking place outside of your properties that are trackable b
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by photorized 11y ago
I just got a "Netflix can't play this title at this time" error message - are you guys experimenting?
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by photorized 12y ago
Excellent idea.
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by photorized 12y ago
Founder here, happy to answer any questions you might have. This is the tool I used to discover a massive twitter spam issue in a bot-related discussion a couple of wks ago.
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Extracting Competitive Intelligence from Twitter Data(itrend.tv)
2 points by photorized 12y ago|1 comments
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by photorized 12y ago
Impressive work. Some of the assumptions (people tend to @mention users geographically close to them) don't always hold true, especially in tech, VC, startups, etc.
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by photorized 12y ago
Google Corp Dev here. Would love to chat.
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by photorized 12y ago
because if it's blatant, they may be liable.
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by photorized 12y ago
Disclaimer: We built a product for researching competition. Part of its core functionality is monitoring Twitter activity related to a given company and determining where their popularity is coming from, and who is influencing it. Naturall
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by photorized 12y ago
So, would you all like to see an example of some really sophisticated ongoing twitter spam, that normally stays undetected? On the one hand, it's our competitor (so I understand my motives could be questioned). On the other hand, I fe
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by photorized 12y ago
if anyone from Twitter is reading this, connect with me regarding the problems we uncovered, I have practical suggestions on how to make your service better.
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by photorized 12y ago
That's actually an example that I am Okay with. Machines can be a benefit or a hazard etc... This one is harmless (and potentially useful to some), because: - it's not 'Following' anyone - it's not Retweeting other
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by photorized 12y ago
I once wrote to him asking if he was a bot, got an immediate reply back saying No. Point I was trying to make - even thousands of messages per day can be explained and justified, and if you follow someone like that, it's up to you to f
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by photorized 12y ago
On the topics that we tracked, the user agent was almost exclusively IFTTT.
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by photorized 12y ago
Almost every online marketer does this type of automation. As you said, they goal is to get real people to look at their account, and to hopefully follow them. This is mild, comparing to some of the other activity that goes on.
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by photorized 12y ago
Personally, I agree with you, Twitter is very much like an economy... currently, some much of the Supply (publishing) is being manufactured, it's exceeding Demand, so now the Demand (real human readership) has to be manufactured with m
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by photorized 12y ago
First of all, there are different types of bots. Some are (or virtually indistinguishable from) real people, typically in Asia, performing simple tasks a la Mechanical Turk. The bigger networks though appear to be completely automated, and
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by photorized 12y ago
If you do, I will be happy to contribute the criteria for "fakeness". malatortsev at itrend dot tv
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by photorized 12y ago
If you are a popular TV show, your social tv rating ends up in your Nielsen reports, enabling you to charge more for advertising. Ad agency gets paid for their promotional work, etc. As an individual with lots of followers, you could adver
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by photorized 12y ago
Those are the least sophisticated spam networks, based on what we've seen. Following each other and properly retweeting makes it easy to plot the network and relationship within. The bigger (and more effective) ones designed around a
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by photorized 12y ago
We've done some analysis as well, it will be interesting to compare notes - let's connect. Best bots have real-sounding names, a photo, a bio - and they randomly inject human comments. Found huge networks built almost entirely on
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by photorized 12y ago
31 months is a long time though.
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by photorized 12y ago
How do you handle support issues - returns, exchanges, credits? Same mechanism? Where do you draw the line on "anything"? Also, this whole thing is April Fool's joke, right?
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by photorized 12y ago
Does anyone have an estimate of their volume, or how much was 'lost'?

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