Apple buys Twitter data firm Topsy

[bbc]

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25195534#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa[/url]

[Map in a box]

Not a monopoly buying more monopolizable stuff

[.Lain]

[QUOTE=Map in a box;43050231]Not a monopoly buying more monopolizable stuff[/QUOTE]
how is apple a monopoly?

[Banned?]

TIL there is an entire firm dedicated to data mining Twitter.

[Within]

[QUOTE=Banned?;43050283]TIL there is an entire firm dedicated to data mining Twitter.[/QUOTE]

There are more than half a billion Twitter users. Data mining this amount of data and turning it into something useful is not just something you do as a weekend project.

[Swiket]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/cqL8idr.png[/img]

Well that was misleading for me.

[Killer900]

I almost shit my pants

[Lordofdafood]

[QUOTE=Swiket;43050321][img]http://i.imgur.com/cqL8idr.png[/img]

Well that was misleading for me.[/QUOTE]

If apple got hold of twitter would we have iTwit ?

[GHOST!!!!]

iTwat sounds more appropriate.

[Map in a box]

[QUOTE=.Lain;43050246]how is apple a monopoly?[/QUOTE] They sure want to be with the lawsuits they keep throwing around