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Reuters and Twitter
The media might have a fantastic citizen journalism tool in Twitter - if they don’t botch it up.
Read Reuter’s post today on Twitter: Breaking news, Twitter style.
There are vast amounts of data in the twitter community that is being lost. Such as.
1. Links. What is happening to all those links? Is google recognizing them?
2. keywords. Imagine if there was an algorithem that could detect a sudden emergence of keywords like “earthquake” within the confines of a region. With such a tool Reuters could break news faster than anyone else.
Obviously Twitter would still be the source of the breaking news - but there is too much information being shared on Twitter at any one time to make sense of it. News organizations could come in and help make sense of that noise to increase the signal of events like an earthquake.
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