Thummit, a startup that evaluates Twitter messages to determine what subject they’re relevant to and if the sentiment is positive or negative, is running a special site for tonight’s Oscars ceremony. The site is currently monitoring tweets regarding dozens of actors and films, allowing users to quickly determine at a glance who is faring the best. It’s tough to tell exactly how well the sentiment recognition engine is working, as all the tweets appear to be shown in a single list without any indication as to whether they were deemed to be positive or negative. But there are definitely some clear trends – for example, Philip Seymour Hoffman has a lowly 10% approval rating, as it seems that many people really don’t like his hat.
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If it weren’t for twitter, TC would seemingly have little to report.
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…and by TC I assume you mean TwitterCrunch?
It’s great how twitter does so much for us, TechCrunch does use Twitter the right way.
TechFilipino
these folks or must i say developers need a new hobbie
Meh… I’m a little more concerned about my bank account than what a star is wearing tonight.
Im glad they decided to go in this direction!
Good to see someone stating to make sense of all the data on Twitter. No one has made a Rotten Tomatoes meets Twitter … just yet.
No real news guys? Just another Twitter app that no one will use in 2 weeks.
This one is also doing so…
Http://twitter-1.blogspot.com
No?
Not in a way that you can look at it and see what’s going on! That blogspot is just hundreds of posts of Twitter content with no summary to show any trends.
Actually I like to watch the TV, especially now on Oscars night
again twitter, TC automatically adds ‘ twitter’ to every blogpost title?
Backs up what we thought, that people talk about the fashion more than the actual awards, what with Natalie Portman, albeit a great actress herself, rating so highly because of her pink dress!
Would have been interesting to see the results at the time of Obama’s victory and subsequent Inauguration.
I suggest it would be a good method to express one’s attitude about film stars easily. It can stimulate users’ sense of paricipation
Jason, thanks for the post. The real-time synthesis is an interesting exercise, and demonstrates 1) people can say a lot in few characters and 2) that there’s a lot of rich content on Twitter, if you can filter the signal from the noise.
Obviously we’re thinking of a range of use cases beyond the glitter of Oscar night.
Full results, with a Top 10 and Bottom 10 list, as well as a lot of fun snark, are here.
http://quickrat...t.com/Home.aspx
Sean Greene, CEO, Thummit
What’s wrong with http://search.t...search?q=oscars