{"id":6602,"date":"2010-06-18T21:34:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T11:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=6602"},"modified":"2010-06-18T21:34:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T11:34:30","slug":"kosmix-tweatbeat-is-australia%e2%80%99s-real-time-source-for-world-cup-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=6602","title":{"rendered":"Kosmix Tweatbeat is Australia\u2019s Real-Time Source for World Cup Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kosmix<\/a> Tweatbeat is Australia\u2019s Real-Time Source for World Cup Action <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tweetbeat World Cup<\/a> filters Twitter to show what\u2019s happening in the tournament right now<\/em><\/p>\n

Sydney, Australia, 18th<\/sup> June 2010:<\/strong> Socceroos fans can now keep track of every second of the action in South Africa, with the introduction of Tweetbeat World Cup, a new Twitter<\/a> filter from Kosmix. Tweetbeat World Cup filters Twitter in real-time to give fans the best commentary, news and opinions about the games, and to show what people are saying about the tournament right now.<\/p>\n

Tweetbeat scans up to 2000 tweets per second\u2014more than 65 million tweets each day\u2014to identify the most interesting and important comments about the FIFA World Cup<\/a>\u2122. Tweetbeat then organises these comments and presents them in real-time, so football fans can follow their team, see the most popular tweets trending now, and read what people are saying about the competition. A speed slider<\/em> lets you <\/em>speed up or slow down the flow of tweets displayed on the page, and a scoreboard<\/em> shows which team has the most Twitter buzz for each game. Fans can retweet the best comments or follow other Twitter users right from the site. A mobile version of Tweetbeat is also available for the iPhone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How Tweetbeat Works<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kosmix, the creator of Tweetbeat World Cup, has taken a semantic approach to filtering Twitter. Kosmix is one of the few companies with access to the complete Twitter firehose<\/a>, and it has developed Tweetbeat by running the full Twitter stream through its categorisation engine. With more than 10 million nodes, the Kosmix categorisation<\/a> engine is among the largest taxonomies of the Web and understands the relationship between things to an unprecedented degree. As a result, Tweetbeat World Cup goes beyond keywords or hashtags to surface tweets about the tournament, teams, players, stadiums and fans\u2014even if the tweet does not contain the term \u201cWorld Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tweetbeat ranks tweets about the World Cup to eliminate spam, reduce the noise and to show what\u2019s resonating right now. Tweet ranking is automatically determined by measuring a variety of signals including the number of retweets, who tweeted and retweeted, how many similar stories are trending up, and how fast the tweet topic is growing.<\/p>\n

Kosmix is applying these techniques to the World Cup teams and players as a showcase of what its technology can do. Later this year the company will release a full version of Tweetbeat across all topics. <\/p>\n

Tweetbeat World Cup Twitter Stats<\/strong><\/p>\n

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According to Kosmix, since the beginning of the tournament the Socceroos have been tweeted 72,464[i]<\/a> times, the 5th<\/sup> most tweeted team in the tournament, amongst a total of 2,448,988 tweets about the World Cup. This number is expected to jump dramatically as the Socceroos take on Ghana on Sunday morning. Additional key statistics[ii]<\/a> include:<\/p>\n