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27/08/12 This New Tool Could Be the Future of Measuring Sentiment on Social Media | Entrepreneur.com 1/3 www.entrepreneur.com/blog/224162 Search Entrepreneur 7 Frugal Startup Tips from Millionaire Entrepreneurs What's Wrong with Microsoft's New Logo and How to Avoid the Same Mistakes 6 MustHave Attributes of Social Media Managers BY JONATHAN BLUM AND ALEX DALENBERG | August 10, 2012 | Tweet Tweet 547 15 This New Tool Could Be the Future of Measuring Sentiment on Social Media 2 Business owners might soon have a new way to interpret content on Twitter that's related to their brand. Emoto 2012 a collaboration between U.K.based digital art festival FutureEverything and MIT's SENSEable City Lab is a new tool that is being used to interpret the global response to the London Olympics. It analyzes tweets for both specific content and the emotions behind the text, and categorizes them as anywhere from extremely negative to enthusiastic. The technology then illustrates the emotion in a tweet stream using a visual design to show the ebb and flow of emotion over time. The intensity of feeling of a tweet stream is represented by varying colors. Thicker lines and shapes represent, among several factors, how many tweets and how many people are tweeting about that topic. For business owners, tracking user sentiment on social media can be valuable for understanding public perceptions of their brand or measuring the effectiveness of advertising and social media campaigns. While still in the early phases, Emoto is showing glimpses of how tools will be able to chart what people are actually feeling about a product, a brand or even an entire company. Here are three reasons why it might be smart for marketers to keep an eye on the Emoto 2012 and other tools like it: Related: 3 Ways to Make Your Social Media Efforts More Productive 1. Twitter isn't providing analytics. After nearly five years since the microblogging service launched, Twitter has yet to offer users access to statistics anywhere close to the statistical detail of packages like Google Analytics or Facebook Advertising. Anyone who's interested in tracking the sentiment of tweets is forced to use Twitter's search to look for happy or sad emoticons, which isn't very effective. Emoto showcases useful information that exists on Twitter, including metrics such as tweetsper minute, and the overall mood and sentiment of how posters felt about a specific topic. The tool scans for topics, the amount of content and the syntax of the tweet. Information can be viewed in granular detail, in the aggregate or for each day of the games. 2. Existing sentimenttracking tools aren't getting the job done. Subscribe Enter email address Most Popular Shared Viewed Video Connect with Entrepreneur Follow Follow @entmagazine @entmagazine 179K followers Get Our Top Stories of the Week Subscribe | Mobile | Bookstore Marketing Basics Sales Online Marketing Finding Customers Social Media Branding TRENDING STORIES Recommend 94 Share Share 67 Sign Up Create an account or log in to see what your friends are recommending. 10 Inspiring Quotes from Women Tech Leaders | Slideshow 196 people recommended this. 7 Frugal Startup Tips from Millionaire Entrepreneurs 549 people recommend this. 7 Simple Ways to Relieve Stress Now 404 people recommend this. Facebook social plugin 7 Frugal Startup Tips from Millionaire Entrepreneurs No Mobile Website? You're Probably Turning Customers Away Richard Branson on How to Network. Hint: Early and Often 7 Simple Ways to Relieve Stress Now What's Wrong with Microsoft's New Logo and How to Avoid the Same Mistakes 6 MustHave Attributes of Social Media Managers Move Over, Kickstarter: Microfunding Sites Target Local Communities 4 Lessons for Overcoming Setbacks from Food Network Star Guy Fieri The Logo Mishaps of Giant Brands When a Tattoo Equals a Lawsuit Like Startups Run & Grow Money Marketing Technology Franchises The 'Treps Answers Magazine Video

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Business owners might soon have a new way tointerpret content on Twitter that's related to theirbrand.

Emoto 2012 ­­ a collaboration between U.K.­baseddigital art festival FutureEverything and MIT'sSENSEable City Lab ­­ is a new tool that is beingused to interpret the global response to the LondonOlympics. It analyzes tweets for both specific content

and the emotions behind the text, and categorizes them as anywhere from extremely negativeto enthusiastic.

The technology then illustrates the emotion in a tweet stream using a visual design to show theebb and flow of emotion over time. The intensity of feeling of a tweet stream is represented byvarying colors. Thicker lines and shapes represent, among several factors, how many tweetsand how many people are tweeting about that topic. 

For business owners, tracking user sentiment on social media can be valuable forunderstanding public perceptions of their brand or measuring the effectiveness of advertisingand social media campaigns. While still in the early phases, Emoto is showing glimpses of howtools will be able to chart what people are actually feeling about a product, a brand or even anentire company.

Here are three reasons why it might be smart for marketers to keep an eye on the Emoto 2012and other tools like it:

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1. Twitter isn't providing analytics.After nearly five years since the microblogging service launched, Twitter has yet to offer usersaccess to statistics anywhere close to the statistical detail of packages like Google Analytics orFacebook Advertising. Anyone who's interested in tracking the sentiment of tweets is forced touse Twitter's search to look for happy or sad emoticons, which isn't very effective.

Emoto showcases useful information that exists on Twitter, including metrics such as tweets­per­minute, and the overall mood and sentiment of how posters felt about a specific topic. The toolscans for topics, the amount of content and the syntax of the tweet. Information can be viewedin granular detail, in the aggregate or for each day of the games.

2. Existing sentiment­tracking tools aren't getting the job done.SubscribeEnter email address

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The analytics gap at Twitter has opened the door for third parties to create social mediasentiment engines, including Canada­based Social Mention and paid services such as Twendz,from Seattle­based marketing firm Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. But services like these stilloffer painfully basic data.

Emoto, on the other hand, can show that response to a tweet can be much more subtle. Notsimply a positive and negative sentiment, but a complex emotion behind the tweet stream canbe inferred.

3. Emoto is just the first step.Emoto 2012 shows that there is capability and promise for a simple, graphics­oriented socialmedia tool that businesses can use to get a deep, relatively immediate picture of their onlinebrand value. And the potential is there for tracking competing ideas and brands as well.

Given the growing interest in social media marketing, the Emoto 2012 is likely just the first step,and only one of many tools that will aim to provide a deeper understanding of social brands ­­hopefully eliminating the need to collect and manage every individual tweet.

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