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Re:Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads by acgourley on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @03:33AM (#1261342)
I think building that stack that figures out who is saying positive things on twitter about brands is probably valuable in itself. You can resell the results to whomever.
Re:Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads by gojomo on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @03:39AM (#1261349)
Last summer, I was curious about how Mechanical Turk worked, and signed up for some HITs. I had to classify the sentiment of tweets -- mostly about airlines/airports/travel-in-progress. I suspect I was helping train an automatic classifier. So work on such stacks is certainly underway...