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How is twitter used as a barometer? Explain the potential uses of networks as barometers? m12 october 10 jenny

How is twitter used as a barometer? Twitter is used as a barometer because of its users' tweets that update happening events in real time, and can be used to know the change of events in real time. (From this article's example, they monitor users' tweets at major events during a football game (touch downs, scoring). Because of its live feeds, it is up to date all the time, and can have stacks of updates within seconds. Explain the potential uses of networks as barometers. Potential uses include anything with a large audience, televised media like reality shows, political debates, localized applications such as storm news updates, an electricity black out etc. Users will be able to know the changes of what's happening in real time from their mobile devices that supports viewing tweets as barometers.

Summary m12 oct 27 soo

Currently many people are using social networking to express their thoughts and emotions. The most well known social networkings are Facebook and Twitter. Many people in the world post their status, most posts are not significant but some have valuable information. This posts are representing nation's mood. So some companies like DataSift and Gnip are using Twitter as data plaforms. These companies are colleting all the information from the Twitter. When people updates their status, these companies collect all the information from the status which contains some feedback about companies' products. This brings good effects to company however, others raised question of privacy concerns. The companies are not ask and get information to individuals, most of the users raised question about individual privacy.