Everyone is going for it – 140 char tweets. Consumers, supporters, disgruntled men and women, corporate honchos, and big time authority bloggers are hurling it out at a furious pace ….
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Out of every 140 chars – only about 80 of them have some meaning – The rest 60, web-junk….That’s what the stats say.
Now, the legion of web marketers are thinking, as to how these 80 chars can be tapped for some intelligence – if it is at all there. Web semantics holds a bright light for the tweets out there. We all know that Twitter is one of the first places to look for any developing story – be it the Iranian elections, the Hudson river United airlines landing, or a simple remark from Matt about Google Caffeine…Twitter is the the most democratic billboard of the web.
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The sweet stuff will be – if the tweets can be bundled into blocks of information and this blocks of trends / info are visible graphically. So, for example, you are looking for the latest on MJ burial, then in one corner – Let’s say ‘Tweet Corner’ – One balloon / 3D cube exists for the tag ‘MJ burial’. The size of the info-block will obviously be in the ratio of the number of tweets & the number of meaningful characters in the tweets…
So long from CopperBridge corridors..
