Seriously, what is it with all those "startups" based on mining Twitter data, Twitter add-ons etc?
OK, we know why you do it. Because Twitter API is easy, Twitter relationships are easy. That's why you shouldn't do it. Nobody cares, and if its that easy, it will never be a real business anyway.
It's easy to get the information; that doesn't mean that non-trivial oppertunities for mining the data don't exist.
Getting stock ticker data is also easy...
Seriously, what is it with all those "startups" based on mining Twitter data, Twitter add-ons etc?
OK, we know why you do it. Because Twitter API is easy, Twitter relationships are easy. That's why you shouldn't do it. Nobody cares, and if its that easy, it will never be a real business anyway.