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photorized

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About photorized

data discovery, #NLProc, digital media, predictive analytics.

www.itrend.tv www.colodesk.com www.advection.net

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    Comment #9450325

    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…

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    Comment #9262693

    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 bo…

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    Comment #9257820

    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 car…

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    Comment #9257792

    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 pla…

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    Comment #9254668

    I just got a "Netflix can't play this title at this time" error message - are you guys experimenting?

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    Comment #9239631

    Excellent idea.

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    Comment #9239619

    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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    Comment #9201272

    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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    Comment #9188983

    Google Corp Dev here. Would love to chat.

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    Comment #9175421

    because if it's blatant, they may be liable.

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    Comment #9173645

    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 pop…

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    Comment #9173292

    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…

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    Comment #9173074

    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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    Comment #9172857

    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' …

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    Comment #9172781

    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, a…

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    Comment #9172703

    On the topics that we tracked, the user agent was almost exclusively IFTTT.

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    Comment #9172658

    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, compar…

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    Comment #9172613

    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 Deman…

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    Comment #9172407

    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 bi…

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    Comment #9172067

    If you do, I will be happy to contribute the criteria for "fakeness". malatortsev at itrend dot tv

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    Comment #9171315

    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, et…