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During the interview http://askobama.twitter.com/ http://askobama.twitter.com/ at 42m20s, they claim that 10% of the questions are on Education, whereas twitspr

• apetresc 15y ago
  Right. That was our biggest deviation from their numbers. There's quite a lot of things that could account for it -- both of us are using imperfect heuristics to classify them, and they didn't exactly explain their methodology with regards to what counts as a unique question. In our case, we counted rephrasings, RTs, and quotes as retweets, not just the native ones. This may account for the difference. We may make the data set we gathered public some time, so people can draw their own conclusions about which categorizations are more accurate.
• darklajid 15y ago
  This _is_ getting a bit offtopic, but - looking at that video I was stunned to see roundabout (No, didn't count them..) a dozen 'Good to see you. How are you?' during his entrance. Now - I'm not trying to mock this, it's just sooo disconnected from all I know: Why do you ask questions, if you expect no answers? I see this here (moved to Israel) as well - strangers say hi and ask what's up - but don't care. At home, in Germany, I'd consider this not sincere. Yet, it seems to be quite the norm.
  • cbr 15y ago
    Words sometimes don't mean what they look like they should mean. In the US, "how are you?" or "what's up?" mean about the same thing as "nice to see you". It's not really a question, just a greeting. Confusing to learn, but a protocol that works fine once people on both ends understand it.