IBM and Twitter have made avaialable new cloud data services that allow business professionals and developers to extract actionable business insights from Twitter data. Twitter is a real-time, public, conversational and global information platform where voices from around the world are speaking about every topic imaginable.

But for business professionals to do more than social listening – to be able to use Twitter data to inform their organization's most essential decisions -– they must first isolate the signal from the noise. IBM does this by analyzing Twitter data in combination with millions of data points from other streams of public and business data – such as weather forecasts, sales information and product inventory stats – to uncover powerful correlations that drive more actionable insights.

With the new IBM analytics services businesses and developers will be able to search, quickly explore and then mine enriched Twitter content and aggregated insights through IBM's Insights for Twitter service on IBM Bluemix.

By automating the steps of data curation, predictive analysis and visual storytelling, Watson Analytics can give business professionals the ability to immediately pull Twitter data into any project in order to help identify and explain hidden patterns and relationships to accelerate the understanding of why things happen and what's likely to happen.

With select cluster configurations of BigInsights on Cloud pre-configured with access to Twitter content, clients can combine Twitter data with IBM's Enterprise Hadoop-as-a-Service offering also available through IBM Bluemix.