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Kate Olson

Privacy Disaster At Twitter: Direct Messages Exposed - 0 views

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shared by Kate Olson on 23 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Kate Olson on 23 Apr 08
     
    Direct messages on twitter showed up in public timeline - very scary!
  • Lucy Gray on 23 Apr 08
     
    I read about this today, and wow! Read the comments to this story. I think it's important reminders to be careful about what we write about it in general.
Hiroshi Tsujimura

Los Angeles earthquake chokes phone calls, not Twitter | News - Wireless - CNET News.com - 0 views

news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10001912-94.html

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shared by Hiroshi Tsujimura on 30 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Given it was her first earthquake experience, Wilson did what comes naturally--she twittered it.
  • "As soon as I got dressed, I twittered my experience from my cell phone," Wilson said. "I usually twitter to 80 friends, but I now have 274 messages from people commenting on it."
  • Hiroshi Tsujimura on 30 Jul 08
     
    Twittering and texting may be the way to go in an emergency, given landline and cellular phone networks were heavily congested as callers jammed the lines, creating frustration for some users who had difficulty getting calls through.
Elizabeth Koh

Swine flu: Twitter's power to misinform | Net Effect - 0 views

neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/...lu_twitters_power_to_misinform

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shared by Elizabeth Koh on 27 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • Twitter seems to have introduced too much noise into the process
  • The problem with Twitter is that there is very little context you can fit into 140 characters, even less so if all you are doing is watching a stream of messages that mention “swine flu.”
  • Now, the lack of context is probably not a problem in 99% of discussions happening on Twitter – or, at least, it's not a problem with devastating global consequences.
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  • networked panic
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