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Whether or not you're actively trading, information is currency.
What Dataminr tries to do is enable our customers to know about things sooner.
It's the corroborative nature of Twitter after an event happens that is an incredibly essential piece of the puzzle.
When it comes to real time, Twitter is dominant, and for me, I really view Twitter as one of the most revolutionary companies of the century.
People are sensors out there, and if you look at the Twitter archive over time, there's a flow and pattern for every story there has ever been.
I think social media is only in the second inning. I may be biased, but I think, essentially, we're just in the beginning of the revolution that social media is bringing about.
There are 500 million tweets a day, and there are only a handful throughout the day that are relevant at a particular moment. We need to deliver those messages at the right time with the right analytics.