Social Sentiment: Are You Listening?

As social media tools become more prevalent, those participating in the online conversation become increasingly influential, especially as their opinions travel faster and to a wider group of consumers. The IBM Social Sentiment Index uses analytics and natural language processing technologies to aggregate and gauge consumer public opinions from Twitter, blogs, message boards and other social media.

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[johnthinkpad]

My concern is that it might all be a "social bubble", just like the dot com bubble. I actually terminated my facebook account recently, and it feels just great.

[Marcelle Allen]

That is pretty fascinating. When, where and how will this be available?