It’s been 2 weeks since Thoora went into private beta at TechCrunch50, and we hope that all the other TC50 companies are doing well. We meant to post these stats up right away but we have been super busy keeping all our beta users happy. It was amazing to see companies from around the world, presenting new tech, new products and new business ideas. Though we were fortunate to catch all of the presentations, we found it difficult to get a good idea of what people’s overall reaction to the companies and presentations was. So what do you do when you’re sitting on access to over 80 million blogs, Twitter and 4.5K news sources? We asked the crowds what they thought, more specifically we used the Thoora platform to give us an idea of what people thought about TC50. Here are some stats that show how the online world reacted to various companies, and each group. Twitter has been scaled back about x10, which really shows how hot the activity is on Twitter (much more so than the news and blog domain). We also make the distinction between blogs and news depending on the source. Generally we look at personal blogs as “blogs” and traditional news sources, professional/company blogs as “news”.
Each group was broken down into the following categories. For more information, please visit the techcrunch50 website. We can see here that group 2 and 8 were the most amongst people generating the most amount of buzz during the TC50 week.
- Group 1: Youth & Games
- Group 2: New Frontiers
- Group 3: New Advertising & Monetization Platforms
- Group 4: Local & Classified Marketplaces
- Group 5: Business Applications
- Group 6: Subscription & Commerce Marketplaces
- Group 7: News & Media Discovery
- Group 8: Social Media Streams
Finally, we took a look at the reaction from Twitter as each company walked on stage. Note for this graph we have limited displaying a condensed traffic spike per company so that each company can be seen. We have also highlighted the company from each group that got the most reaction on Twitter. The timescale has been adjusted so that we can see each company one after another. Just to clarify, in the example of Redbeacon, the volume during and following their presentation has been condensed so the viewer can get a general idea of the Twitter reaction. The companies are displayed in order, and out of courtesy, we only display 8. If you want to find your company, you just need to remember when you presented.
Looking back, it was a great week, and at the end of the day, its nice to get a quick snapshot of what people around the world thought too.
