Tag Archives: Social Media

Rate Limits on Twitter

The evolution of the API opens the door for third-party developers to access information on social media networks. In the best case, this provides a healthy, democratic flow of information. Yesterday, DiscoverText had “rate limits” imposed in terms of its … Continue reading

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Presenting Actionable Insights

Everyday, users of social media miss out on potentially important pieces of information which they seek to find. This problem, which everyone encounters, illustrates a larger conundrum which confronts users of social media; information overload. For those who are not … Continue reading

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DiscoverText Webinar

Learn to Use DiscoverText – Free Tutorial Webinar Tuesday August 16 at 1:00 PM EST Webinar Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/750225288 This free, live Webinar introduces DiscoverText and key features used to ingest, filter, search & code text. We take your questions and … Continue reading

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Klout Marketing by Spotify

In Q1 of this year, serious internet chatter surfaced about the possibility of popular Swedish online streaming music service Spotify launching in the U.S. Spotify is a tantalizing proposition for the American media consumer. While there are costs incurred, the service … Continue reading

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Twitter Opinion on Debt Ceiling

LATEST TWITTER OPINION POLLS REGARDING THE DEBT CEILING: (CONSISTENT WITH ZOGBY POLL NUMBERS) Here’s how we got there…. Since the debt ceiling fiasco began, nation-wide outrage toward Washington has been at an all time high. Naturally, here at Texifter, we … Continue reading

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Hurtigruten: A Norwegian Social Media Phenomenon

Here at Texifter, we are regularly impressed by the many ways in which our increasing number of end-users discover new ways to apply DiscoverText’s capabilities to their own research. With each new success story, we are – once again – … Continue reading

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Bin Laden, Oil & Foreign Policy

Immediately following President Obama’s speech on the evening of May 1 confirming the execution of Osama bin Laden, the DiscoverText team began collecting all twitter posts which contained the key words “Osama,” and “Bin Laden.”  The bin Laden project collected … Continue reading

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FB Graph API Revisited

Following the blog post about oddities in the Facebook importing that Stu was experiencing while visiting the DMI summer school, I put on my detective hat and went looking for possible reasons why things that should be available from the … Continue reading

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Capturing Social Media Dissent

Immediately after the judge read the not guilty verdict in the high profile Casey Anthony criminal case, total internet traffic to major news outlets doubled, and most importantly, outsiders took to social media outlets to display their emotions and opinions. … Continue reading

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Facebook Graph Mysteries

During my recent visit to the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) summer school, hosted by my good friend Richard Rogers, I had the pleasure of spending two days teaching and working with 35 exceptionally bright students who were new to the … Continue reading

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Top #GameofThrones Tweeters

Below is another in our series of training videos. In this episode, we introduce you to a great new feature for peaking into the list of top values in a particular meta data field. In the example here, I show … Continue reading

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Monitor Middle East Protests

Dear faithful users and intrigued future users of DiscoverText, My name’s Josh and I’m one of 3 user support specialists at Texifter LLC. For my first Texifter blog entry, I’m going to demonstrate how I’ve been using DiscoverText to capture … Continue reading

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70,000 Game of Thrones Tweets

I wanted to test the new Cloud Explorer developed by Texifter as part of the DiscoverText suite of text analysis tools. Since the revisions to the old tag cloud tool were inspired by comments from a Game of Thrones fan, … Continue reading

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Search All Public Facebook Posts

All this week, we’ve been highlighting some of the new features and functionality recently added to DiscoverText. Tonight, Texifter staff is excited to present the ability to search across all available public Facebook posts and pull those comments into a … Continue reading

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“Cloud Explorer” – More Than Just a Tag Cloud

Continuing from last night’s blog post regarding Texifter’s latest work regarding the new navigation design and functionality in DiscoverText, tonight I’d like to introduce you to DiscoverText’s Cloud Explorer. Most traditional tag clouds such as Wordle and TagCrowd only give … Continue reading

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