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In particular, a new report shows that Twitter provided an early account of the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti. According to the study published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Internet news and social media were faster transmitters of information in tracking the cholera epidemic in Haiti than health officials. The tweets provided information that health officials wouldn’t report until two weeks later.
1.) Twitter Accurately Predicts Politician’s Victory at New Hampshire Primary
2.) Twitter knows how you will be feeling this Friday
3.) Did Twitter predict the revolution in Egypt?
4.) Predict the future yourself with Twitter and Timeu.se
5.) Hedgefund to make bets based on Tweets – beats the market
6.) Predicting and stopping the spread of diseases with Twitter
Note: All of these predictions are of the kind of collecting data early and seeing a pattern in that data in order to see what is currently emerging. That is just a small part of what we use the word “prediction” for… Not that it is unimportant but it might be problematic to call it predictions without to define what kind of predictions it is…
Svenska Twitteruniversitetet | The Swedish Twitter University
I just learned something interesting via @cascio: there is a Swedish Twitter University (read FAQ here) and Jamais Cascio will be donig a session about “The Foresight Immune System” on Monday 12th 8 pm GMT (read about it on Jamais Cascio’s site here. This particular session might be interesting for anyone interested in future and foresight, but the idea of a twitter based education might be interesting to explore for many others…
The world is global, which means that I didn’t know about this until now, even if I am living in Sweden.
Source: svtwuni.wordpress.com
Infographic Of The Day: The Many Languages Of Twitter | Co. Design
In the physical world, we tend to identify ourselves by nationality. But online, where you can reach across cyberspace and speak directly and instantaneously with someone 6,000 miles away without ever passing through customs, nationality isn’t nearly as meaningful. The real borders are created by language: Language is what makes someone addressable no matter where he is. Language is what you share with strangers above all else. Language is your passport into a new community of people.
This chart was made from analyzing Twitter. To me it is interesting to note how well languages still match the borders of countries. If we revisit our history we can see it is really the effect of the nation state and it’s control of the recent technologies of the printing press and even more recently the radio, the TV and the telephone. All of which where technologies that relied on national investments in infrastructure and consequently used by governing bodies to strengthen the nation (and their power of over the people) by emphasizing the national borders, cultural and language. These technologies were in fact all instruments in building the modern nation state.
With Internet this might be a different story…
Source: fastcodesign.com
Using millions of Twitter subscribers as living “sensors,” engineers from Rice University and Motorola Mobility have developed a way to monitor fans’ levels of excitement while keeping track of the action in NFL games — without ever switching on a TV.
Another example of how Twitter is helping researcher to tap into people’s emotions.
(via People as ‘sensors’: Twitter messages reveal NFL’s big plays | KurzweilAI)
Source: kurzweilai.net
When Twitter became a personal communication tool it also became a researcher’s way to our brains. This project use twitter to analyze mood swings and find that, on average, people wake up in a good mood. What is really interesting is that psychology research takes a step out from the traditional use of psychology students as research material and into the real world where millions of people are providing digital data on a rather personal level.
(via Twitter as a giant global mood ring | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine)
Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com
Heading back to school? On Twitter? Then this cartoon of the day is for you… Remember to enter this week’s cartoon caption contest: http://nyr.kr/r46had
This is funny, but it also points at the importance to note how technologies redefine our world… How will e g GPS impact children’s future perception of stories like Hans and Gretel? - “Why was they lost? What is lost, anyway??”
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- Maria Popova, In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship
Go read the whole piece: it is truly brilliant.
I also find it extremely interesting that Popova is using a technique in this piece that I have developed here, where I call out the most critical statements in my work. She’s using bold, while I make the fonts larger. In this way, a cursory scan read will still hit paydirt. She’s writing about the change in our attention and the job of curators, and certainly pulling out the central themes is one such job.
(via stoweboyd)
Source: niemanlab.org
Like falling in love, providing signals meant for sharing is normal and natural. We have to start thinking of tweets as the knowledge worker’s pheromones. Signalling. Alerting. Marking out “territory”. Warning off. Pointing towards food or shelter. Looking for relationship. Sometimes preparatory, sometimes catalytic, sometimes just plain old informative.
Interesting aspect of what Twitter, blogging and social computing really are. Maybe the metaphor of the common brain some people think we are emerging into is exaggerated. Maybe we are just heading towards one giant ant colony… Whatever the real difference is?
(via Communication and Collaboration in a Social Business World)
This somewhat incomplete but relevant picture of different technologies which are vehicles for different communication needs misses to point out one very interesting but hidden aspect. It is an argument for why Twitter is so powerful: it ties into almost all different communication situations and do also cover both the asynchronos as well as the synchronos communication modes.
And why not mention Twitter in group collaboration situations? I would bet that it works in these situation already - just use the right tag.
Source: enterpriseirregulars.com
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P A Martin Börjesson
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