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Thus, Unlike
basic internet search – which has been already been nicely used by
Google to track emerging
flu epidemics – Twitter seems to have introduced too much noise into the
process -
And yet the bottom line is that tracking the
frequency of Twitter mentions of swine flu as a means of predicting
anything thus becomes useless
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Michael BlackstoneTwitter problem
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Twitter seems to have introduced too much noise into the
process: as opposed to search requests which are generally motivated
only by a desire to learn more about a given subject, too many Twitter
conversations about swine flu seem to be motivated by desires to fit
in, do what one's friends do (i.e. tweet about it) or simply gain
more popularity.
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I think it's only a matter of time
before that the next generation of cyber-terrorists -- those who are
smart about social media, are familiar with modern information flows,
and are knowledgeable about human networks -- take advantage of the
escalating fears over the next epidemic and pollute the networked
public sphere with scares that would essentially paralyze the global
economy. Often, such tactics would bring much more destruction than
the much-feared cyberwar and attacks on physical -- rather than
human -- networks.
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Adriana Lukastwitter and the lack of context for what passes for conversations on it. agree up to a point but what people call noise is only that in their context. I suspect this has to do with assumption that there must be one right, correct and overriding context, which of course is not true.
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Gabriela GrosseckA recent New York Times piece highlighted how a growing number of corporations like Starbucks, Dell, and Whole Foods are turning to Twitter to monitor and partially shape conversation about particular brands or products. What the piece failed to mention w
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Twitter seems to have introduced too much noise into the
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problem with Twitter is that there is very little context you can fit
into 140 characters, even less so if all you are doing is watching a
stream of messages that mention “swine flu.” - 2 more annotations...
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there are
quite a few reasons to be concerned about Twitter's role in facilitating an unnecessary global panic about swine flu.
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Jane NetWho knew that swine flu could also infect Twitter? Yet this is what appears to have happened in the last 24 hours, with thousands of Twitter users turning to their favorite service to query each other about this nascent and potentially lethal threat as well as to share news and latest developments from Mexico, Texas, Kansas and New York (you can check most recent Twitter updates on the subject by searching for “swine flu” and “#swineflu”). And despite all the recent Twitter-enthusiasm about this platform's unique power to alert millions of people in decentralized and previously unavailable ways, there are quite a few reasons to be concerned about Twitter's role in facilitating an unnecessary global panic about swine flu.
First of all, I should point out from the very outset that anyone trying to make sense of how Twitter's “global brain” has reacted to the prospect of the swine flu pandemic is likely to get disappointed. The “swine flu” meme has so far that misinformed and panicking people armed with a platform to broadcast their fears are likely to produce only more fear, misinformation and panic. -
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Thus, Unlike
basic internet search – which has been already been nicely used by
Google to track emerging
flu epidemics – Twitter seems to have introduced too much noise into the
process -
And yet the bottom line is that tracking the
frequency of Twitter mentions of swine flu as a means of predicting
anything thus becomes useless
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Will ReichardSwine flu: Twitter's power to misinform
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