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Twitter Gets Serious

Twitter traffic is reaching such huge volume it is becoming statistically accurate and contains so much real-time data that it is becoming relevant. Like a survey, the larger the sample the more accurate the conclusions, so if 500 Twitterer's are giving real time information about a large-scale event the cumulative data can prove very precise.



This new source of data and it's accurary have not gone unnoticed by California authorities who used it to track the recent brush fires in… Continue

Added by Keith Rollman on November 20, 2008 at 4:41pm — 7 Comments

Better late than never

I'd be happy to answer any questions anyone has on this subject. It is being handled by HPD and the city prosecutor. It falls under one of the new cyber-laws, harrasement by impersonation.

Added by Keith Rollman on November 9, 2008 at 8:29am — 3 Comments

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