SAFETY Act and Sports Teams - Using Twitter as an event scanner

A recent Boston Herald article reported that Major League Baseball…

Twitter Firehose vs. Twitter API: What’s the difference and why should you care?

Users send 400 million tweets every day.  Ranked as the 10th…

Boston Marathon Tragedy: The Use of Twitter in a Crisis by Law Enforcement and Public Service Agencies

Overnight the Boston Police Department Twitter handle (@Boston_Police)…

What is OSINT and How Can Your Organization Use it?

The government and military love to use acronyms, and one of…
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Final Results of #Poltwt Tweet-a-thon

BrightPlanet has tallied the final results from the Global Law…

Meet Mo! - Halfway Through the Law Enforcement Tweet-a-Thon #Poltwt

We are over halfway through the 24-hour Law Enforcement Tweet-a-Thon.…

Monitoring the Law Enforcement Tweet-A-Thon

We are less than a day away from the 24-Hour Law Enforcement…

Deep Web Search and Dark Web Search - Similar Names; Major Differences!

Eleven years ago, BrightPlanet coined the term “Deep Web”…
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[Whitepaper] How 5 Industries Leverage Big Data

The flood of Big Data that is added to the Deep Web each and…

The Benefits of Social Media Monitoring for Law Enforcement

Social media monitoring is changing the way law enforcement does…