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We spent several years in the era of real-time data. All production and consumption, but there is still a great need for filtering. For this reason, mark Suster of GRP partners, doubling down on Twitter by investing in DataSift, one of the two companies with re-syndicate Twitter firehose from more than 200 million Tweets per day (another GNIP). GRP and IA ventures invest $ 6 million in DataSift.
DataSift was born out of Tweetmeme and launched at TechCrunch disrupt SF last year. It provides full firehose Twitter in an environment that can be mined, cut, analyzed and mashing up with other real-time flows such as Klout, PeerIndex, Facebook, WordPress and others.
Rate, which DataSift the investors make Twitter not to enter this data Syndication market itself and take it away, as was the case with Twitter clients. DataSift has a long-term contract with Twitter, but this does not guarantee Twitter not to repeat any of the services which it considers particularly profitable. On the other hand, if the DataSift does this work, it may become a target acquisition for Twitter.
DataSift tries to create a framework for real-time data mining and Business Analytics business. He saw no opportunity for products based on DataSift for financial services (real time investment signals), marketing (sentiment analysis and influence of trees), health (looking for early signs of pandemics and other outbreaks), political campaigns, (voter sentiment tracking), TV (realtime feedback and monitoring social media) and news (Breaking records). DataSift does not build any of these products myself, but rather sell data to others.
If you want to see the little app based on the DataSift fun, check the DataSift invaders Game Space Invaders which shows Twitter avatar every time someone tweets @ DSInvader. He then shoots o avatars through their Klout score.
DataSift solves the problem for developers and companies where they want to easily aggregate and filter content from Twitter, but don't have the server resources.
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