Dataminr in the News

16 Mar 2014:

In just the first minutes after the Harlem explosion, aggregate Twitter data revealed a lot about what had happened. People acted collectively as an on-the-ground detection and sensory network, depicting the scene with granularity long before first responders or reporters arrived.

 These Twitter eyewitnesses in Harlem provided a mosaic of images and first-hand accounts — all emerging from one location in a short time. Additionally, the geo-proximity of tweets, the shape and rate of tweet propagation, and the linguistic signatures of the messages quickly illustrated the potential magnitude and importance of what had occurred — all before traditional information sources had even arrived on site.

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.