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Twitter - Analysing the Collective Voice
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What is Twitter?
Not quite a status update service...
"One ham sandwich tweet is inconsquential
1000 ham sandwiches being eaten at once is an event"
Why use Twitter?
Teachers
News
Updates on your course
File attachments
Podcasts
etc...
Students/attendees
Forming networks of interest
Gathering data in real time from a collective
Analysing word streams
wordle
Organising the stream
# - The hashtag
Status updates
Friends
People you know
People based stream
Twitter - Analysing the collective voice
#RULT10
Conventions
Grouping with # hashtags
Information stream
140 Characters
http://prezi.com/l1sutqvjy8di/
Gina Trapani - This week in Google 38
Source: BBC
Many people streams
BBC - what do you want in 2010?
source: bbc news
Comparisons
Simple data structure that lends itself to analysis
RSS
Single people streams
Allows you to output your search as plain text
Plain text can be analysed
Events