In their latest whitepaper, “Social Media Pulse”, @jrmontag and @drskippy use pattern recognition to categorize and model unexpected events — and show how just a bit of data can help predict outcomes.

Twitter shows what’s happening in the world at lightning speed, and our Gnip enterprise data products and the Twitter Public APIs make Tweets available in real-time to developers worldwide.

The Audience API from Gnip helps you instantly understand the audience behind any topic, any conversation, any influencer, or any event on Twitter.

Twitter is where the world’s most influential people connect with each other and with the wider social media community in a way that’s never been possible before. Politicians, sports stars, actors, musicians, and many others are vibrant participants in a huge range of discussions. In fact, 82% of world leaders are on Twitter. But until recently, it has been challenging for financial market participants to join in the conversation.

This August we announced the general availability of our new Gnip 2.0 APIs and laid out the plan to sunset all Gnip 1.0 endpoints on December 1, 2016.

We’re happy to report that many Gnip customer are now using the 2.0 endpoints, and enjoying the enhancements that come with them.

This week we announced the general availability of all Gnip 2.0 products. As part of that announcement we introduced the Klout 2.0 Enrichment - a new, enhanced version of our Klout Enrichment.

In December, we announced that we were building Gnip 2.0 — enhanced versions of our core Gnip APIs built with rich new data available in Twitter systems. Today we are excited to announce that 2.0 versions of our full suite of real-time and historical Gnip products are now generally available and ready for all customers to start using.

Financial analysts, traders and market professionals globally are increasingly using Twitter to stay abreast of the market and make critical decisions. This is the second in a series of blog posts in which we aim to cover some of the ways that Twitter data is being used by a variety of financial market participants. In the first post we discussed fundamental and consumer analysis.

Gnip’s new Audience API is now GA and incorporates a number of customer-requested updates that ease the creation of custom audiences while maintaining a high degree of protection for individual user privacy.

This post explores how we worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and created a sample Engagement API client to better measure - and improve - the performance of the organization’s campaign efforts on Twitter.