company . for the jorge luis borges reference see the library of babel . crimson hexagon type social media software founded 2007 1 founder gary king headquarters boston united states services social media insights analytics number of employees 85 website http www.crimsonhexagon.com crimson hexagon is a social media analytics company based out of boston massachusetts . 2 the company has also a european division in london england . 3 the company s social media data library consists of over 500 billion posts and includes documents from social networks such as twitter and facebook as well as blogs forums and news sites . 4 the company s forsight platform is a twitter certified product . 5 crimson hexagon s analysis of current events and trending topics is often featured in news articles . 6 pew research uses crimson hexagon s social media analysis platform to analyze media coverage and discourse . 7 history edit crimson hexagon was founded in 2007 by gary king and candace fleming based upon technology he had developed at harvard university s institute for quantitative social science . 8 in 2012 stephanie newby became the company s ceo . 9 in march 2014 the company announced its affinities feature which allows marketers to identify the interests of people talking about brands products or companies on social media . 10 references edit crimson hexagon secures 5 million in series b funding . business wire . may 24 2011 . retrieved 2014 11 20 . alspach kyle november 18 2011 . details emerge on crimson hexagon s move to boston . retrieved 2014 11 20 . pinkerton eleanor october 21 2014 . crimson hexagon opens new european headquarters and joins vibrant innovation community on london s south bank . retrieved 2015 02 10 . rohr erin september 23 2014 . crimson hexagon indexes 500 billion social media posts for on demand consumer insight . retrieved 2015 02 10 . peterson tim august 30 2012 . twitter anoints 12 partners in certified product program . retrieved 2015 02 10 . goel vindu march 23 2014 . g.m. uses social media to manage customers and its reputation . retrieved 2014 11 21 . jurkowitz mark july 17 2013 . on twitter anger greets the zimmerman verdict . retrieved 2014 11 21 . hitlin paul november 4 2013 . methodology how crimson hexagon works . journalism . retrieved 2014 11 20 . seiffert don march 14 2013 . crimson hexagon raises 3.5 m in series b financing . retrieved 2015 02 10 . latham melissa march 24 2012 . crimson hexagon introduces affinities to its forsight platform . retrieved 2015 02 10 . external links edit crimson hexagon home page retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title crimson hexagon & oldid 717400248 categories social media companiestechnology companies established in 2007 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 27 april 2016 at 13 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view