Sean Parker (played by Justin Timberlake in the Social Network) says that “Twitter is still trying to find a way to make money”.
While some see Twitter as a noisy place full of meaningless babble, there is a gold mine of information in the “Twitter stream”. Journalists and hedge funds are already using it to get an edge. Do you really want to read today’s news tomorrow?
While blogs could easily scoop mainstream news outlets on breaking stories. The real time nature of the Twitter stream is even faster. The challenge for the uninitiated is to make sense of the news fragments, shortened links that are mixed in with the flotsam and jetsam of people’s personal lives.
While some see Twitter as a noisy place full of meaningless babble, there is a gold mine of information in the “Twitter stream”. Journalists and hedge funds are already using it to get an edge. Do you really want to read today’s news tomorrow?
While blogs could easily scoop mainstream news outlets on breaking stories. The real time nature of the Twitter stream is even faster. The challenge for the uninitiated is to make sense of the news fragments, shortened links that are mixed in with the flotsam and jetsam of people’s personal lives.
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