After IBM Deal With Twitter, Watson Supercomputer Can Mine Mountains of Tweets

After IBM Deal With Twitter, Watson Supercomputer Can Mine Mountains of Tweets

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Watson, the artificially intelligent IBM supercomputer, can already beat you at Jeopardy. And soon, it will know more than you do about what’s happening on Twitter, too. It’s part of a deal the two companies announced on Wednesday that’s designed to let IBM’s business clients mine the 500 million daily Twitter messages for competitive intel.