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Brandwatch
Company blog · brandwatch.com/blogbusinessdata
Brandwatch is the company blog at brandwatch.com, writing about business and data. Since 2011, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Brandwatch's blog as a source for social media and Facebook user statistics, and one cites a 2015 post. The comments do not discuss the quality of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Brandwatch, a Cision company, is an AI-powered social media management, consumer intelligence, and influencer marketing suite trusted by half of the Forbes 100.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/facebook-statistics/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-21
What Hacker News says?
I'm not sure why you find this surprising, a bank has a much more complicated problem space than Facebook. - They have a reasonably similar number of users (a fraction, but a large one). - Mistakes cost a lot, so they have to be a lot more careful. It's a lot easier to make money hacking a bank than hacking facebook. - They have to comply with all sorts of regulations. - They probably don't trust their own employees…
Comment linking /blog/facebook-statistics/
on “Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud”Submitted Why you should be eating your own dog food as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe amount of actual user text content on even a comparatively large forum is ... surprisingly small. When Google+ was shutting down, I did estimating of the total amount of public content within the Communities feature. Median size of a post was pretty close to Tweet-sized --- 120 characters or so. (G+ could ingest very large posts --- I never hit a limit though I wouldn't be surprised if it was book sized.) The hi…
Comment linking /blog/facebook-statistics/
on “As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever”Submitted The Emoji Report – Brandwatch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionVoted straight to the top an opposing view that makes a single woolly and unjustified claim ("Youtube transcoding the 500 hours of video it gets every 60 seconds[0] uses much more power than too many unoptimized PNGs do" - but no figures to back either of those claims up). I see a lot of that on HN, strange thing. I run without JS. If I need JS I start up a VM. It's quite common for eg. google groups to max out the…
Comment linking /blog/youtube-stats/
on “How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient?”Submitted BuzzSumo is Joining Brandwatch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionVirtual desktops have been a free download since the last century. Very few people use them, so there was never much point in shipping them with the OS. Not sure there is now.... https://www.brandwatch.com/2015/08/react-why-thousands-of-pe... And the idea that Windows is not a developer platform is extremely ill-informed....
Comment linking /2015/08/react-why-thousands-of-people-love-and-hate-windows-10/
on “Windows 10 Review”Submitted The brands that got the most CES 2017 discussion online as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHaven't looked into how accurate these are but it's mentioned fairly often. "Market leader Facebook was used by 79 percent of internet users" https://www.statista.com/statistics/246230/share-of-us-inter... "71% of online adults use Facebook" http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/social-networking-fac... "72% of all online US adults visit Facebook at least once a month" https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/96-amazing-soc…
Comment linking /blog/96-amazing-social-media-statistics-and-facts-for-2016/
on “Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Steps Down”Submitted Monster.com 'Job Joy' 2016 Report as a story · 1 points
HN discussion1.1B is tiny. Given that FB & IG combined have ~0.5B photos uploaded daily , this effectively translates to training data from just a few days of user generated content. https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/facebook-statistics/#:~:text... . https://www.zippia.com/advice/instagram-statistics/#:~:text=... .
Comment linking /blog/facebook-statistics/
on “Meta's new AI image generator was trained on 1.1B Instagram and FB photos”Submitted A competitor's perspective on the $326MM Radian6 acquisition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNo description of how it works or what it does. Sounds like a bot. Dodgy ethics. Not yet launched. This is just an idea, and possibly a bad one at that. Regardless of morality, if it's a bot posting AI messages based on brand mentions or keyword mentions on set platforms then those platforms likely already have guidelines for bots. Maybe you could get away with an automated workflow? Send the user alerts for the men…
Comment linking /p/demo-social-listening/
on “I'm halfway through coding a tool to mention brands in social media discussions”Other options to fulfill EU Copyright Directive: https://www.audiblemagic.com/ https://www.pixsy.com/ https://institut.ina.fr/en/services/image-sound-software/sig... https://www.brandwatch.com/ https://visua.com/
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