There's a lot of noise on Twitter. People use a variety of ways to filter through that noise, from following specific lists, finding like-minded people through third party sites, or using a variety of services and websites to find the information that matters to them on Twitter. Another interesting way to filter through what is being said on Twitter, and better yet, analyse it, is to visualize it [...]
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"These little bits of information" are complementary to what journalists do.
Twitter is working on relevancy and heping people find what is more relevant to them, says Williams, but sees a role for journalists in helping audiences sifting the signal from the noise.
He talks about journalists' role as curating the messages on Twitter, with the Huffington Post being a leader in this area.
But Williams also says the company wants to build more trust and authenticity into Twitter. The company is working on reputation systems, though this is still at its nascent phase.
The Twitalyzer is a unique tool to evaluate the activity of any Twitter user and report on relative influence, signal-to-noise ratio, generosity, velocity, clout, and other useful measures of success in social media.
one of the functions that networks such as Twitter does is to serve as something of a human powered feed, a real time living stream of links, content and conversation often times generated by our friends, peers or the people we look to as "filters"—indivisuals who we trust to seperate the wheat from chaff.
the internet is still about information—but it's also about attention
We all suffer from technology induced attention deficit disorder,
Bookmarks don't help—now we need tools like del.icio.us. And of course we need Google more than ever. And there's once more thing we need. We need each other to make sense of it all. We need a Web with a human touch to help guide us through the fragmented, landscape of the internet. And that's where the human feed comes in.
power in the human feed
Often times the quality of links and information I get on Twitter is better than what I would have gotten from Google because the knowledge of the human feed is deep, niche, and fickle.
It's not always about size—it's also about quality
"ignoring the Me Media gluttons who gum up the works with a frivolous blog posting or Twitter text every few minutes" - article about friendfeed/twitter, but tone rather
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.