As we reported earlier today, UK-based social search service DataSift has secured $6m in funding to expand its Twitter-sanctioned social data search platform for power users and developers who want to create complex searches across the social Web.As a demo of the platform, DataSift has just launched a rather cool Web app called DataSift Invaders. It's like Space Invaders but powered by Twitter-related data such as sentiment analysis and rankings from the likes of Klout and PeerIndex.Here&# [...]

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