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This is actually kind of interesting. Something like a tweet is context dependent. Some people tweet mostly to their friends and a lot of retweets are in fact
by netcan 12y ago
This is actually kind of interesting.
Something like a tweet is context dependent. Some people tweet mostly to their friends and a lot of retweets are in fact indicative of a personal relationship. It will often be easy to estimate for a twitter user, but very hard to make objective enough to work as evidence in court.
Do they have just 12 or 12000 followers? Are they tweeting personal tidbits or politics & jokes? etc. These things can add up to an very informed guess.
- rayiner 12y agoIn the U.S. The admissibility of evidence is based on relevance.[1] The modern formulation asks: does consideration of a piece of evidence increase or decrease the probability of some material fact being true? A retweet is certainly relevant. The evidence makes it more likely that two people are friends than the baseline where there is no retweet. [1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_under_Bayes_theorem http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_under_Bayes_theorem