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So, O'Reilly had a glitch, everybody and their dog twittered about it, the author used twitter search to get the info early. I don't see the Big Deal here anyh

by moe 18y ago

So, O'Reilly had a glitch, everybody and their dog twittered about it, the author used twitter search to get the info early. I don't see the Big Deal here anyhow. How about just shooting off an E-Mail to O'Reilly and ask?

bvttf 18y ago
What if something happens where there isn't an omniscient authority? Or if the authority is unresponsive?
- dablya 18y ago
  The cool thing (according to the author) was using twitter search to find too many submissions accepted for RailConf...
- moe 18y ago
  Well, can you think of an example, even a contrived one? I can't anyhow.
dablya 18y ago
He used twitter search to find everybody and their dog twittering about it. I think his argument is that google search is not set up to provide this kind of information as quickly.
jrockway 18y ago
I think the idea is that it's easy to find a pattern when you are looking for one, but in this case, the author wasn't really looking for a pattern. He typed some stuff into twitter, and the pattern emerged in real time. That is pretty cool. (It would be even cooler if the author didn't bold every other word.)