‘Another Big Day for Twitter Partners as DataSift Raises $42 Million’ – ‘Mashable’

Kurt Wagner says, “Tuesday was another big day for companies selling Twitter‘s data.Datasift, a social analytics company with access to Twitter’s full firehose, announced on Tuesday a $42 million Series C funding round. DataSift has raised more than $70 million total, most of it since a $6 million Series A round back in 2011.

Tuesday’s Series C round was lead by New York-based Insight Venture Partners, which also invested in Twitter and other social companies like HootSuite”.