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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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line-height: 110%;">OPLIN 4Cast #261: Tweets,
tweets, what are they good for?</span><br>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.oplin.org/4cast/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/twitter_newbird_blue.png"><img
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alt="" height="68" width="98"></a>It's
difficult to grasp the amount of information
people generate each day in the form of short
little tweets. Many of these tweets (some people
would say most of them) seem to be useless
information, while some tweeters, teamed up with
other tweeters, have been credited with <a
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20031600-36.html">bringing
down governments</a> this year. Some
organizations think even seemingly useless tweets
have value and are putting a lot of effort into
collecting them - often for very different
reasons, not all of them benign.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/12/07/library-of-congress-says-twitter-archive-will-build-unique-record-of-our-time/">Library
of Congress says Twitter archive will build
"unique record of our time"</a> (The Next
Web/Jon Russell) "The archives of tweets will be
available to [program manager Bill] Lefurgy's
team for research, as it seeks to find and
analyse 'interesting data' from the
information[...] The number of tweets to be
archived has grown rapidly from the 50 million a
day that was recorded when Twitter and the
library first linked up last year. According to
Twitter's <a
href="http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/numbers.html">latest
figures</a>, an average of 140 million tweets
are sent across its service per day, that's an
awful lot of data to store and analyse."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/07/datasift-historical-tweets/">DataSift
to offer access to historical tweets</a>
(TechCrunch/Erick Schonfeld) "When the service
is launched more broadly later next year, it
will go back as far as two years. DataSift
allows for all sorts of data analysis because it
pours all the tweets into a structured database.
So you can give it queries like: 'Give me all
the tweets that mention TechCrunch from people
who do not follow @techcrunch' or 'All females
in the UK who mention fashion.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://allthingsd.com/20101118/twitter-partner-gnip-raises-2m-for-social-media-monitoring-data/">Twitter
partner Gnip raises $2M for social media
monitoring data</a> (All Things D/Liz Gannes)
"Gnip will offer social media monitoring
companies the Halfhose (50 percent of Tweets at
a cost of $30,000 per month), the Decahose (10
percent of Tweets for $5,000 per month) and the
Mentionhose (all mentions of a user including
@replies and re-Tweets for $20,000 per month),
with the caveat that they can't publicly display
the data."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-cia-following-twitter-facebook-081055316.html">CIA
following Twitter, Facebook</a> (Associated
Press/Kimberly Dozier) "The CIA facility was set
up in response to a recommendation by the 9/11
Commission, with its first priority to focus on
counterterrorism and counterproliferation. But
its several hundred analysts - the actual number
is classified - track a broad range, from
Chinese Internet access to the mood on the
street in Pakistan."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Holiday
bonus:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">This is
not related to Twitter, but... a former editor of
the <em>4cast</em> found a very <a
href="http://blog.sendblaster.com/2011/12/14/have-our-email-viewing-habits-changed-infographic/">interesting
infographic</a> about email habits. Cool!
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