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This is Part II of 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:

Disqus Comments is a comment system that powers hundreds of thousands of sites. They use BackType’s API to retrieve "social reactions" from across the web to display alongside comments.

Kosmix helps people explore the web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevent videos, photos, news, commentary and more. They use BackType’s API to retrieve relevant commentary.

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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.

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Some great news from Hype Machine yesterday: they released a feature called The Twitter Music Chart that lets you view and listen to the most popular Hype Machine songs on Twitter. BackType Connect helps uncover all the Hype Machine songs being shared on Twitter so they can apply their chart rankings, which they detail on their blog. You can even calculate your own Twitter score used in their rankings.

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Today, we’re happy to announce our partnership with Filtrbox to help them extend their online conversation monitoring solutions for market intelligence.

Filtrbox G2 delivers critical market intelligence to executives, sales professionals, investors and marketers. The service acts as an intelligent agent, discovering new articles across millions of online sources and delivering a daily list of qualified results based on your business logic. With Filtrbox G2 you will spend less time searching and more time making the critical decisions to make your business successful.

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