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Student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail

16 points by rms 19y ago

shawndrost 19y ago
"Twitter is a social-networking blog site" Hah! The pace of the internet makes terms obsolete just as cnn starts to use them.
- mattmaroon 19y ago
  That is hilarious. In fairness though, I can't think of a good way to explain Twitter to a CNN-style audience, and I use it.
paul9290 19y ago
Twitter indexes thoughts and conversations, other words personal consumer information! Great for market researchers, as well as a company's who want to monitor brand and services! I hate X company tweeted 1,000 times becomes very useful!
- jrockway 19y ago
  Typing "I hate <company>" into Google is the same thing. Twitter just lowers the barrier to entry (for writing "i hate foo").
  - paul9290 19y ago
    But...more people will do this due to Twitter's 140 character limit! Also if you use a twitter search you can quickly gleam and tally up marketing data and monitor brand in a quicker fashion; demographics are easier to obtain too! I don't understand why this community nor the digg community does not see the immense value of indexing short conversations of millions of people? After all it's information and what does Google index and make billions from?
    - riltim 19y ago
      Google indexes the internet, twitter indexes twitter. Which do you think will provide a more useful data set for marketing research? Heck of all the people I know I can't think of a single person that uses twitter. However I can think of a dozen or two that have written product/service reviews somewhere on the internet, which would be indexed by Google.
redorb 19y ago
good to see a free service, that is useful. Thats one way to make a loyal customer
iamdave 19y ago
Throws a pebble in the pond.
dimitry 19y ago
I don't get that title... It suggests that Twitter somehow helped him get out of jail, but... it didn't. He just had his phone on him and Twittered from time to time.
crisachow14 19y ago
Wow. I am surprised he was able to get out of jail. I am sure if I put something similar on twitter, my 6 followers would eventually read it and then reply 'oh, bummer.'

16 points by rms 19y ago

"Twitter is a social-networking blog site" Hah! The pace of the internet makes terms obsolete just as cnn starts to use them.

mattmaroon 19y ago
That is hilarious. In fairness though, I can't think of a good way to explain Twitter to a CNN-style audience, and I use it.

paul9290 19y ago

Twitter indexes thoughts and conversations, other words personal consumer information! Great for market researchers, as well as a company's who want to monitor brand and services! I hate X company tweeted 1,000 times becomes very useful!

jrockway 19y ago
Typing "I hate <company>" into Google is the same thing. Twitter just lowers the barrier to entry (for writing "i hate foo").
- paul9290 19y ago
  But...more people will do this due to Twitter's 140 character limit! Also if you use a twitter search you can quickly gleam and tally up marketing data and monitor brand in a quicker fashion; demographics are easier to obtain too! I don't understand why this community nor the digg community does not see the immense value of indexing short conversations of millions of people? After all it's information and what does Google index and make billions from?
  - riltim 19y ago
    Google indexes the internet, twitter indexes twitter. Which do you think will provide a more useful data set for marketing research? Heck of all the people I know I can't think of a single person that uses twitter. However I can think of a dozen or two that have written product/service reviews somewhere on the internet, which would be indexed by Google.

redorb 19y ago

good to see a free service, that is useful. Thats one way to make a loyal customer

iamdave 19y ago

Throws a pebble in the pond.

dimitry 19y ago

I don't get that title... It suggests that Twitter somehow helped him get out of jail, but... it didn't. He just had his phone on him and Twittered from time to time.

crisachow14 19y ago

Wow. I am surprised he was able to get out of jail. I am sure if I put something similar on twitter, my 6 followers would eventually read it and then reply 'oh, bummer.'