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Scoop https://scoopanalytics.com https://scoopanalytics.com Automatically detects breaking news through social media (Twitter). Breaking news, before it breaks
by JamesMcMinn 11y ago
Scoop https://scoopanalytics.com https://scoopanalytics.com
Automatically detects breaking news through social media (Twitter). Breaking news, before it breaks.
We're often able to beat the mainstream media by several minutes (sometimes hours), and we're particularity good at natural disasters, bombings, explosions, shootings and celebrity deaths. There's no human in the loop, no key word lists, just real-time algorithms figuring out what was unexpected.
- Rainymood 11y agoYou guys have access to the twitter firehose?
- JamesMcMinn 11y agoUnfortunately no, we have a sample at the moment. The majority of the time, if we're slow to pick something up, it's because the first tweets weren't in our sample. There's a bunch of clever tricks going on, so even if we miss something we can still get the majority of content once we've picked up that something is happening, and of course, we'll use the search API to go back and get any content we missed.