$200M for ~150M Users. Bad deal if you compare it with for example, whatsapp... But hey, at least they landed a exit.
150M users? Where did u come up with that? That's like saying Google owns 10 billion sites because they crawl 10 billion sites.
Klout acquired for $200 million by Lithium Technologies
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Re: Klout acquired for $200 million by Lithium Technologies
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> simply compute all of this information directly rather than inefficiently via the API platform and firehose I'm not sure to understand what you mean here. By directly, I guess you mean by crawling the web ? You're right about the fact that it would give access to more data, but, as Klout measure is people-centric, a social graph API is a more straightforward data source. Associating web pages to unique identity of…
No, I don't mean crawl the web. I mean Twitter could just compute the data and calculate the graphs via their direct access to the data. Traversing the full corpus of all data, across all dimensions, including time, including data points not exposed via the platform. > Given their scale, access to twitter graph data should not have been a problem Yes, because Twitter could decide it doesn't want to provide the data o…
Ok, now I get what you meant. You're totally right.
> If you are co-founding anything that uses twitter platform you should consider what happens if Twitter's biz dev team decides they doesn't want you to exist.
This is definitely a risk that must be mitigated in this type of projects, indeed.