csschmitt's comments

On: Babel – API for Twitter users demographics, psychographics, influence scores

[csschmitt]

Well Cambridge Analytica was tricking you into giving your facebook access so they could access your friends and datas. On our side we analyze public datas to determine insights

[hemlokc → csschmitt]

"Public" is basically anything covered in T&C's that users sign in order to join social media platforms, or use mobile apps. That's exactly what CA did. They harvested data on users after "asking for consent" and sold their services to political parties and private companies to create targeted ads for these people, all unknowingly.

SocialObjects sounds a lot like this, is all I'm saying.

[csschmitt → hemlokc]

Not really. Facebook datas can only be accessed through Facebook tokens. Its not public data, which why CA pulled the gaming app trick.

On: Babel – API for Twitter users demographics, psychographics, influence scores

[csschmitt]

Hello HN!

A lot of startups wanted to access our data to build personalized products so we figured we built an API for it!

Babel API: - Access to our 550Millions+ Twitter profiles database - 14 data fields: age, gender, location, affinities, influence score, biography …. - Limited to 1000 API calls on trial version - API calls are made requesting the user Twitter handle - Documentation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YsPZ6720qYi6k8XHjEu3t65J...

Let me know what you think!