Finding Utility in the Jumble of Tweeted Thoughts!
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Finding Utility in the Jumble of Tweeted Thoughts!
SBonthu Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:40 pm
Twitter seems to be making quite an impact in the news today. Everyone's talking about it... here's why:
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/technology/internet/14twitter.html
Check out this article. Twitter's connecting people in more meaningful ways than we know - political rally, finding out about live events before they're even on the news, people protests directly affecting corporations, gaining medical information, and so on. Some examples include...
"Corey Menscher, a graduate student at New York University, developed the Kickbee, an elastic band with vibration sensors that his pregnant wife wore to alert Twitter each time the baby kicked: “I kicked Mommy at 08:52 PM on Fri, Jan 2!” Mr. Menscher is now considering selling the product."
Who knew!
"Already doctors use Twitter to ask for help and share information about procedures. At Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, surgeons and residents twittered throughout a recent operation to remove a brain tumor from a 47-year-old man who has seizures."
"In 2006, when Twitter was just starting, the three men felt a small earthquake in San Francisco. They each reached for their phones to twitter about it and discovered tweets from others in the city. At that moment, it dawned on them that Twitter might be most useful for something else — a frontline news report, not just for friends, but for anyone reading."
"Indeed, the news-gathering promise of Twitter was most evident during the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last November and when a jetliner landed in the Hudson River in January. People were twittering from the scenes before reporters arrived."
"However, for Twitter to be truly useful as a research tool, more people will have to start using it. If it collected a more representative slice of what the world is thinking, Twitter could enable academics and scientists to track epidemics, for instance.
To make that easier, Twitter will soon add a search box to the home page so users can search for terms like “earthquake” or “flu” and get any tweets about those topics in their Twitter feeds"
Imagine the network!
Here's an excerpt that sums it up:
"Individually, many of those 140-character “tweets” seem inane.
But taken collectively, the stream of messages can turn Twitter into a surprisingly useful tool for solving problems and providing insights into the digital mood. By tapping into the world’s collective brain, researchers of all kinds have found that if they make the effort to dig through the mundane comments, the live conversations offer an early glimpse into public sentiment — and even help them shape it."
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/technology/internet/14twitter.html
Check out this article. Twitter's connecting people in more meaningful ways than we know - political rally, finding out about live events before they're even on the news, people protests directly affecting corporations, gaining medical information, and so on. Some examples include...
"Corey Menscher, a graduate student at New York University, developed the Kickbee, an elastic band with vibration sensors that his pregnant wife wore to alert Twitter each time the baby kicked: “I kicked Mommy at 08:52 PM on Fri, Jan 2!” Mr. Menscher is now considering selling the product."
Who knew!
"Already doctors use Twitter to ask for help and share information about procedures. At Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, surgeons and residents twittered throughout a recent operation to remove a brain tumor from a 47-year-old man who has seizures."
"In 2006, when Twitter was just starting, the three men felt a small earthquake in San Francisco. They each reached for their phones to twitter about it and discovered tweets from others in the city. At that moment, it dawned on them that Twitter might be most useful for something else — a frontline news report, not just for friends, but for anyone reading."
"Indeed, the news-gathering promise of Twitter was most evident during the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last November and when a jetliner landed in the Hudson River in January. People were twittering from the scenes before reporters arrived."
"However, for Twitter to be truly useful as a research tool, more people will have to start using it. If it collected a more representative slice of what the world is thinking, Twitter could enable academics and scientists to track epidemics, for instance.
To make that easier, Twitter will soon add a search box to the home page so users can search for terms like “earthquake” or “flu” and get any tweets about those topics in their Twitter feeds"
Imagine the network!
Here's an excerpt that sums it up:
"Individually, many of those 140-character “tweets” seem inane.
But taken collectively, the stream of messages can turn Twitter into a surprisingly useful tool for solving problems and providing insights into the digital mood. By tapping into the world’s collective brain, researchers of all kinds have found that if they make the effort to dig through the mundane comments, the live conversations offer an early glimpse into public sentiment — and even help them shape it."
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