BackType

BackType Trends is a small web service we launched today that lets you graph mentions of keywords and topics made in millions of comments. We built it to demo our API – which was used exclusively. We’ve featured a group a searches on the front page with a lot of mentions.

For example, here’s a graph of mentions of Obama made in the last two weeks:

As well as my personal favorite – Joe the plumber:

Try it out and let us know what you think!

Tags: api, backtype

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