We can detect weak signals in Advance. We quite easily detected two cases:

• case 1: A wave of protests/strikes, with a continuous (low) flow of articles, even starting from December 2013 (not shown in the graph)
• case 2: The alleged corruption case which found a deep echo in the local press, but almost nothing in the international one.

We can easily track weak signals : local languages with little to no coverage in English press.

PepsiCo Inc. said Monday it would reintroduce the aspartame-sweetened version of Diet Pepsi in U.S. stores in September, its latest attempt to halt plunging diet cola sales. FinSentS detected the trend on The Street. After several hours, MarketWatch’s news went out.

We detect signals several hours before mass exposure.

The crowd-sourced sentiment indicator towards Bitcoin has tracked its price movements reasonably well over the past several years. The first wave of crowd positivity towards Bitcoin began in early 2013 when several factors combined to boost the currency’s legitimacy– even former Fed Chairman Bernanke acknowledged that it “may hold long-term promise” – and, as the price started to rise, public awareness of Bitcoin surged, all of which culminated in a huge price spike.