3 ms·

I can understand MS but John Deere? Hard to credit that they'd be monitoring HN. I mean how many farmers read HN?

• tomlong 10y ago
  I'm sceptical as well but I imagine people there search Twitter and Google and such to see what is being said by them.
  • barking 10y ago
    I didn't think of that!
  • jsnathan 10y ago
    There are services that have the specific purpose of identifying discussions about brands in real time [1]. Whether that's good or bad depends on how it's used I guess. [1]: https://mention.com/en/ https://mention.com/en/
• lithos 10y ago
  John deer is willing to spend millions to protect their IP, all the way to the color green.
  • barking 10y ago
    They're pretty good at it then