# Bluefin Labs

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bluefin-labs/  
**Website:** http://bluefinlabs.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Bluefin Labs was a social TV analytics company founded in 2008 in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Deb Roy and Michael Fleischman, spun out of research at the MIT Media Lab. Its platform semantically interpreted public social media commentary from Twitter, Facebook and blogs and automatically linked those comments to the television shows and advertisements people were watching, producing audience engagement measurement for networks, agencies and brands. Its product, Bluefin Signals, gave media buyers a tool for accessing and analyzing social TV response data. The company raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures in 2010 and a $12M Series B led by Time Warner Investments in January 2012, with SoftBank Capital and Lerer Ventures participating. Twitter acquired Bluefin Labs on February 6, 2013 for a reported ~$100 million and absorbed the team and technology into its TV advertising and analytics products. The company is DEFUNCT: it operates no independent product, developer program or API, and the bluefinlabs.com domain no longer belongs to the company — it now redirects to an unrelated news site. This profile is retained as a historical / portfolio-graph record only.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Defunct, Acquired, Analytics, Social-Media, Television, Media Measurement, Advertising, Machine-Learning

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/bluefin-labs/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.