I actually thought/think a merger of twitter and yahoo would make sense, and I also said a while back they should have merged(square & twitter) but that is off

I actually thought/think a merger of twitter and yahoo would make sense, and I also said a while back they should have merged(square & twitter) but that is off topic. The thing about twitter is that it has 1/2 of the problems of yahoo, it is pretty well defined as a communication channel and more specifically it is a one to many broadcast channel. It doesn't know how to financially capture value. Twitter is pretty interesting in that the arbitrary SMS length of 140ish char is pretty interesting from a data standpoint as it ends up playing sort of like XML. Pretty much the way to use data online is that we use 1960s IBM doc authoring language, it got a few tags and some sugar in the late 80s/90s but in reality we add meta tags to meta tags and then read this data. Twitter, due to the char limit actually provides dynamic labels to realtime information flows in a way that is comprehensible programatically. e.g. <p>Some info</p> is not particularly helpful as the entire <article> and accompanying data needs to be parsed and looked at, and always varies from site to site. However: In #election2016, I voted for #Trump. Data labels can mirror trends in human readable form and computer processed form. So in the above example, from @example you could state: Public Opinion of Trump +1 @example is a complete moron. So it actually ends up playing like a paradigm shift from sql to nosql data in terms of data streams.