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yeah, good point for sure. problem is that I am living in Europe right now (I miss the US), and it used to be a lot easier to just meet up with someone knowledg

yeah, good point for sure. problem is that I am living in Europe right now (I miss the US), and it used to be a lot easier to just meet up with someone knowledgable from any industry back in the US. Here, it's hard to do so. And cold-emailing companies in that field might come off as me trying to drain their competitive advantage? No? I'd be curious who might be able to help out. But calling up Klout would likely not get me a call back at this stage. and just to add: I think my particular problem is, and that's sort of the selling point, my analysis and reports is not just growth data (which is easy), but my calculations require all of your follower details to work correctly (to provide correct results). Twitter is sending me random follower details, so having a partial set means little reliability (for up to 60 days).

EwanToo 14y ago
I don't know where in Europe you're currently based, but Datasift are in the UK and seem to be one of the hottest "social media analytics" companies out there. Their staff seem fairly active on twitter itself, maybe give them a try [1] 1 - http://datasift.com/whoweare/team http://datasift.com/whoweare/team
- mittermayr 14y ago
  checking them out right now, thanks for the hint!
  - ig1 14y ago
    Also Peerindex.
    - cjbenedikt 14y ago
      there is also an excellent start-up based in Portland, OR called luckysort. Good people, only the time difference from Europe sucks ;-)
- pja 14y ago
  Yeah, I was about to suggest Datasift as well. IIRC I had a chat to some of them at the last SiliconMilkRoundabout & they seemed like they knew their stuff. It does occur to me that the OP is effectively trying to replicate large chunks of the twitter datastore & that's going to be very difficult to manage! It's not like twitter themselves were particularly reliably to start with after all.
  - mittermayr 14y ago
    yeah, their data records are sometimes faulty and I need to scale down (even if it's not a time out) to 1 record per request to find the faulty in one hundred accounts. so that sucks. and regarding replicating, originally that's what I did. I had up to 20M of Twitter's 140M records cached almost - but that probably wasn't cool with them on the long run and i was unable to maintain a database with one table having multiple gigabytes of data.
dtsingletary 14y ago
I'm happy to answer questions in regards to Klout as far as I can. We utilize GNIP and Datasift both for different situations, but we're working on a different side of data than you are, it sounds. Feel free to email me at api@klout.com.

EwanToo 14y ago

I don't know where in Europe you're currently based, but Datasift are in the UK and seem to be one of the hottest "social media analytics" companies out there. Their staff seem fairly active on twitter itself, maybe give them a try [1] 1 - http://datasift.com/whoweare/team http://datasift.com/whoweare/team

mittermayr 14y ago
checking them out right now, thanks for the hint!
- ig1 14y ago
  Also Peerindex.
  - cjbenedikt 14y ago
    there is also an excellent start-up based in Portland, OR called luckysort. Good people, only the time difference from Europe sucks ;-)
pja 14y ago
Yeah, I was about to suggest Datasift as well. IIRC I had a chat to some of them at the last SiliconMilkRoundabout & they seemed like they knew their stuff. It does occur to me that the OP is effectively trying to replicate large chunks of the twitter datastore & that's going to be very difficult to manage! It's not like twitter themselves were particularly reliably to start with after all.
- mittermayr 14y ago
  yeah, their data records are sometimes faulty and I need to scale down (even if it's not a time out) to 1 record per request to find the faulty in one hundred accounts. so that sucks. and regarding replicating, originally that's what I did. I had up to 20M of Twitter's 140M records cached almost - but that probably wasn't cool with them on the long run and i was unable to maintain a database with one table having multiple gigabytes of data.

dtsingletary 14y ago

I'm happy to answer questions in regards to Klout as far as I can. We utilize GNIP and Datasift both for different situations, but we're working on a different side of data than you are, it sounds. Feel free to email me at api@klout.com.