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Gaining Insight From Social Media Data
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by Tom Webster on February 4, 2012
TweetA simple concept, simply illustrated. Some small percentage of Internet users create content on the social web – let’s call [...]
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by Tom Webster on January 17, 2012
TweetI was delighted to be asked recently to contribute a brief video interview to the excellent Social Media Explorer, run [...]
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by Tom Webster on January 4, 2012
TweetLast night, my company conducted the Iowa Caucus Entrance Poll on behalf of the National Election Pool (NBC, CNN, CBS, [...]
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by Tom Webster on December 11, 2011
TweetLast September, at Social Fresh Charlotte, I had the honor of being asked to speak about social media monitoring, and [...]
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by Tom Webster on November 12, 2011
TweetMy thinking on influence continues to evolve, in no small part due to some excellent exchanges I’ve recently had with [...]
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by Tom Webster on November 9, 2011
TweetDuring my recently completed Blogworld keynote, I sketched out four steps towards turning data into insight, instead of chartjunk. I’ll [...]
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by Tom Webster on October 3, 2011
TweetInfluence scores, as we know them today, are all based upon algorithms. Algorithms are commonly confused with formulae, but they [...]
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by Tom Webster on September 13, 2011
TweetThis headline (from Forbes!!!) makes my eyeballs bleed: Heavy Facebook Users Prone to Drug Use, Study Says. According to the [...]
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by Tom Webster on September 8, 2011
TweetYesterday I gave a presentation at Social Fresh in Charlotte, NC, on turning social media monitoring into social media research. [...]
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by Tom Webster on August 21, 2011
TweetThere is an apocryphal story in the annals of market research that I particularly love about cake mix (“apocryphal,” by [...]
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BrandSavant is a blog about making sense of the social web from the perspective of a professional researcher. Tom Webster is a 20-year veteran of opinion, media and marketing research, and the principal author of Twitter Users In America, The Social Habit, The Podcast Consumer Revealed and other widely-cited studies of consumer technology usage. He is currently Vice President, Strategy, for Edison Research, most widely-known as the sole providers of U.S. Election exit polling data to all major media outlets. For more about Tom, click here.