Decoding Our Twitter Chatter - WSJ.com - 0 views
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Want to monitor an earthquake, track political activity or predict the ups and downs of the stock market?
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esearchers have found a bonanza of real-time data in the torrential flow of Twitter feeds.
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They discovered that in the crisis, Twitter crowds reflexively sorted facts from falsehoods, exercising a collective wisdom on the fly. She found enough measurable differences in language, citations and posting patterns to devise a way to assess the credibility of Twitter texts automatically, with an accuracy of about 70%.
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