Dataminr in the News

4 Feb 2014:

Dataminr has become one of the more successful companies to build its business largely around analyzing Twitter data, turning its algorithms loose on the Twitter firehose to highlight key events for traders, public officials and, now, journalists.

29 Jan 2014:

Twitter’s chief operating officer, Ali Rowghani, helped announce an interesting new product partnership today at an event in New York — a partnership between CNN and a company called Dataminr. The latter, which pays for access to the Twitter “firehose” of 500 million tweets a day, sells a tool that helps financial companies mine that information for useful signals. CNN now has access to a breaking-news version of that same tool, a kind of souped-up version of Tweetdeck, and soon other companies will as well, for a fee.

4 Nov 2013:

Dataminr, a startup focused on analyzing the world’s tweets in real time in order to predict specific trends or activity, is claiming it gave users tracking stock-market activity a three-minute heads up on Monday morning that BlackBerry’s stock was about to tank.

As the graphic below shows, the company noted a tweet from the Toronto-based Globe and Mail newspaper that BlackBerry was giving up its search for a buyer and instead replacing its CEO. The tweet (embedded below) happened at 8:12 a.m. Eastern Time, followed up by a news story at 8:15 a.m. By 8:19 a.m., BlackBerry stock had fallen more than 20 percent.

12 Jun 2013:

Twitter deserves praise for giving millions of people access to real-time information from people, companies and other organizations. But the more people you follow, the harder it is to spot the important tweets. Dataminr’s software solves this problem by cruising through hundreds of millions of tweets a day and sending alerts on the most important ones. That way, customers don’t need to spend hours keeping their eyes glued to the screen.