PeopleBrowsr today announced that it has settled its lawsuit against Twitter to prevent Twitter from blocking PeopleBrowsr’s access to the Twitter firehose of data. As a result of the settlement, PeopleBrowsr will maintain firehose access through the end of the year, and then transition to accessing Twitter data via one of the authorized data resellers. Read →
Last week, PeopleBrowsr, a social analytics company, won a temporary restraining order preventing Twitter from terminating its long-standing access to the full firehose. At the time, Twitter said that it would vigorously defend itself based on “Contract 101″ arguments, claiming that its agreement with PeopleBrowsr gave the platform every right to terminate access. This week Twitter has changed its position. On December 3, Twitter filed a ‘Notice of Removal’ to Federal Court, claiming instead that PeopleBrowsr’s action against Twitter “arises under federal antitrust law,” and as such should be decided in Federal Court. Read →
Yesterday, a San Francisco court gave PeopleBrowsr, an provider of Twitter analytics services, a temporary restraining order against Twitter. The court ruling forces Twitter to maintains PeopleBrowsr’s full access to Twitter’s firehose of data.
This is a first, small victory for the plaintiff in a case that could become a defining moment in the evolution of the data-driven web. There are many issues at stake in the case, but it begs one over-arching question: is data a utility, a resource to which access should be regulated and protected? Read →
Until now, Klout has been the only personal influence measurement tool to track Facebook activity as part of its influence score. On April 12, that changed: Kred, the influence measurement tool introduced last year by PeopleBrowsr, announced that it would include Facebook activity in its scoring model for users who choose to connect their Facebook accounts. And the company has already made changes to its methodology to avoid a privacy fail. Read →
Working with Klout and PeopleBrowsr, Brian Solis has analyzed Twitter influence by gender. The top 50,000 most influential people on Twitter closely matched the gender spread of the global Internet population as measured by comScore: 52% males and 48% females, compared to a global 18+ internet population of 54% male and 46% female. Among these [...] Read →
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