Eamon Leonard
@eamonleonard
Hi Everyone,
I'm the founder of Cohort. @erictwillis thank you for hunting us ✌️
We're a team of 5, based in Ireland. We've been working on Cohort for about a year and a half. That might sound like a long time for something that looks simple, but untangling people's relationships and interests from a complex web of data takes time.
We've built a social graph of 2 billion relationships from Twitter data, and we've analysed the interests of 215 million public profiles. When you sign in, we suggest people you might know well enough to ask a favor of, and this forms the basis of your network of meaningful relationships - your Cohort.
Then within a couple of taps you can discover who in your Cohort is best placed to introduce you to those who can help you with things like advice, influence or expertise.
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joshua bradley
@airjoshb · Celebrating people, making life better.
@eamonleonard @erictwillis Interesting angle, I like the language of people you could ask for a favor. Curious , what was the use case or problem you had in mind when starting out? Especially with the favor in mind.
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Eamon Leonard
@eamonleonard
@airjoshb good question! We think of being able to ask for a favor as an indicator of social capital or relationship strength between two people. This is really what makes networking work - and there wasn't anywhere I could easily leverage my social capital to help others or solve my problems.
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joshua bradley
@airjoshb · Celebrating people, making life better.
@eamonleonard great idea. I am very curious as Twitter is not the place where I have "personal" relationships with people, yet the group I follow/follow me are likely much more likely to have an impact. Really commend you on thinking of social capital in this way.
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Eamon Leonard
@eamonleonard
@airjoshb wow, thank you! The best bit about this is the more you use Cohort, the better you're making it for those who are in your cohort.
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joshua bradley
@airjoshb · Celebrating people, making life better.
@eamonleonard if only there was an Android app 😀
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Eamon Leonard
@eamonleonard
@airjoshb there will be soon!
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Kyle Wendling
@kylemediaradar · Product Owner, Mediaradar
@eamonleonard is twitter your sole data source? % of folks 1) active on twitter 2) with enough metadata, seems miniscule?
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Eamon Leonard
@eamonleonard
@kylemediaradar Hey - Twitter is our main (but not only) source of raw data. Our core IP is the analysis we do on that. Twitter averaged 328 million monthly actives for Q1 2017 [1], and there's plenty we've been able to learn from them, even if they don't actively tweet / haven't tweeted in a while.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statist...
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Kyle Wendling
@kylemediaradar · Product Owner, Mediaradar
@eamonleonard sure there are 328 monthly active 'somethings' on twitter... Can you show a variety of top use case examples from different verticals where 'Cohort' was able to identify a useful cohort as compared with a priori knowledge of the movers and shakers in a vertical (eg show it working) I couldn't find any examples on your site? btw - been playing around with CB data in GC, https://goo.gl/QbYXqP -> Analyze - creating auto 'Cohorts'
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Eamon Leonard
@eamonleonard
@kylemediaradar just to be clear - Cohort helps you find people through people you already know - not a group of people who you don't know but who might be top of some vertical... sure that's a cohort, but it's not what Cohort does. We're concerned with *your* cohort of people, friends-of-friends, relationships that contain social capital, and where that intersects with interests, skills or abilities.
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