Is social media not the panacea people make it out to be? Or is it a case of “you’re doing it wrong”? TechCrunch published an article[1] recently describing the results of a survey a German market research firm conducted. The survey found that by and large, social media projects (think Twitter campaigns, Facebook pages, attempts at viral videos on YouTube) fail.
Social media data is being generated faster than we can count, but it doesn’t have to be hard to organize and analyze the mountain of data. Repustate’s newest API call categorizes your social media data making it easier for you to analyze and report on the data that is important to your company.
Many of us have long heard the well-repeated mantra to “backup our files.” And still many of us have cursed ourselves for forgetting to backup files and invariably losing a document once in a while when our computer freezes. But what about backing up social media data? While it might seem like a tedious task for personal accounts, it makes sense for businesses that depend on their social media activity for part of their company’s growth.
Making social media analytics easier than ever. A new beginning Repustate has relaunched with a new & improved user interface to help marketers, researchers and those who are just so darn curious about social media. This new interface augments our already popular API which has been helping our developer partners make heads & tails out of the stream of data they encounter.
A new up-and-coming social media site focuses on storytelling and sharing life lessons. Branding itself as a mix between Oprah and Wikipedia, Cowbird was created by San-Francisco based artist Jonathan Harris, 32. Harris told the Toronto Star that his team is trying to create a place that is “a repository for the world’s wisdom, knowledge and experience.
Using Twitter, GeoJSON (via GDAL) and d3 to visualize data about Rob Ford (Note: Gists turned into links so as to avoid too many roundtrips to github.com which is slow sometimes) As a citizen of Toronto, the past few weeks (and months) have been interesting to say the least. Our mayor, Rob Ford, has made headlines for his various lewd remarks, football follies, and drunken stupors.
As Repustate’s customer base has grown, the same question has kept popping up: when are you going to add more languages? We’ve tried to stay quiet on this, but in reality, we’ve been working on this problem for a while, and the fruits of our labour will soon be public for all to use.
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Jan 27, 2014
Repustate Team