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Dec 03, 2013
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1gRGYdh9rI&w=600&h=315]

That video above explains to you what Topsy basically does: it allows you to search through about 400 million tweets sent every day and figure out trends around them. Since Twitter's biggest value is essentially that it can cover information in real-time, but its biggest deficit is that so …

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