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Re:Can TTAGG Create Stock Market Alpha? by antonb2011 on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @11:23AM (#3130534)
So, can we please separate facts from fiction? The Forbes article states that TTAGG's back-end downloads all photos that users post on their Twitter accounts and then tries to recognize whether the users are wearing what they claimed to have purchased in their Tweets. Is this really the case? How can you tell apart a pair of American Eagle jeans from a pair of Levi's?
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Re:Can TTAGG Create Stock Market Alpha? by fvryan on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @11:28AM (#3130565)
that starts to get to the core of our technology, so we're not really comfortable discussing it. That being said, in your example there are ways to derive the associated brand based on information alongside or attached to the photo.
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