BackType (YC S08) Analyzes 30 Billion Tweets To Measure Twitter Engagement

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Sorry, Google has more raw twitter data than that.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/replay-it-google-sear...

"For our initial release, you can explore tweets going back to February 11, 2010, and soon you’ll be able to go back as far as the very first tweet on March 21, 2006"

Yeah but then Google is a multi billion dollar company while Backtype is a startup with only 4 people. BT also does way more analysis than Google in terms of user engagement etc. Google doesn't really dive into the data and make useful analytics out of that.

It's not about how much data, it's about how you utilize the data to obtain meaningful results.

cascalog ftw!

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