Twitter Ads has been my personal muse for some time now, and that notion hasn’t slowed down one bit. Why? Much like their counter parts at Facebook, the Twitter Ads team continues to innovate and drive their advertising platform forward. Seriously, I catch myself mumbling, “where do they get all of those wonderful toys!” The […]
Image Search Startup Madbits Acquired by Twitter
Twitter has acquired Madbits, an image search deep learning startup based out of New York. Over this past year, we’ve built visual intelligence technology that automatically understands, organizes and extracts relevant information from raw media. Understanding the content of an image, whether or not there are tags associated with that image, is a complex challenge. […]
Google Indexes Far Fewer Tweets Than Previously Believed
With marketers paying so much attention to the social media power of Twitter, there hasn’t been a close look at how well tweets by users on Twitter get indexed nor how much of an impact those tweets have on Google. Google does not currently have data directly from Twitter (aka “the firehose”) to index tweets. […]