Twitter is an online social networking and news service that enables users to read and send short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can both post and read tweets while unregistered users have read access only. Twitter allows user access through the website interface, SMS and with the mobile app.

Vertica Advanced Analytics enables organizations to analyze and manage massive volumes of semi-structured and structured data reliably and quickly. The Vertica Analytics Platform was designed to manage fast-growing volumes of data, and provide fast query performance when used for query-intensive applications and data warehouses.