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There is no magic discovery about the nature of man hidden away in that data. Nothing you're average stand up comedian hasn't already written a bit about.
by flycaliguy 12y ago
There is no magic discovery about the nature of man hidden away in that data. Nothing you're average stand up comedian hasn't already written a bit about.
- coherentpony 12y agoThat's a little cynical. I like to think we can predict big historical social events (regime changes, major protests, climate change?) based on Twitter's data. You never know unless you try.
- TallGuyShort 12y agoAre you familiar with Atrocity Watch? If not, you should look them up - that's exactly what they do.
- coherentpony 12y agoI am not. Checking them out now; looks pretty cool.
- dirtyaura 12y agoThat was a good one. On a more serious tone, there is one area of research that Twitter data is very valuable for: how information and disinformation is created and spread during major news events: wars, catastrophes, uprisings, school shootings etc. My gut feeling is that today a lot of quality journalism happens outside of the traditional journalistic organisations. The downside is that also a lot of wild speculation and rumours are spread, but it would be valuable to see how good this modern "crowd" journalism is. A skilled research group can use Twitter data and Internet Archive to track down the original sources of information pretty well.
- marincounty 12y agoAnd momentum stock trades. I've always felt a adept programmer who knew how to data mine and worked for Twitter could make a fortune in the stock market?