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What exactly are you offering here -- a scraping and archival service? I'm presuming you're claiming "real-time" because Facebook page insights are already real-time [1], and you periodically scrape and archive that data [2]?

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/26/facebook-insights-real-time... [2] http://graph.facebook.com/waltdisneyworld

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FB reports analytics in realtime, but not all social analytics companies fetch them multiple times an hour. It's impossible to get insights for a page without the owner's access token, so this just uses public data. Also, FB doesn't show how long posts are active, which I find most interesting.

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