Jul 20th How Are Companies Using BackType’s API?
Since we launched BackType Connect, we’ve seen a growing demand for our API. We serve millions of requests every single day through our free (limited to 1,000 daily requests) and commercial API. Here are just some of the companies using our API to do interesting things:
Bitly allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). They use BackType’s API to display related conversations on the Bitly info/statistics pages for URLs.
FiltrBox provides real-time social media monitoring for companies. They use BackType’s API to extend their reach into conversational media, allowing them to deliver even more coverage and quality.
HubSpot is inbound marketing software that helps your business get found on the Internet. They perform analysis and aggregation of data from BackType’s API for their customers’ keywords of interest.
Mahalo is a human powered search engine. They use BackType’s API to supplement human-curated result pages with related conversations happening around the web.
Radian6 is focused on building the complete monitoring and analysis solution for PR and advertising professionals. They use BackType’s API to supplement their own comment indexing in the Radian6 social media monitoring solution.
The Hype Machine keeps track of what music bloggers write about so you can discover new music. They use BackType’s API to uncover all the Hype Machine songs being shared on Twitter so they can create a chart of the top songs.
Please let us know how you’re using our API in the comments
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