Michael Gracie » information dissemination http://michaelgracie.com Clever Tagline Unavailable At Publication Time Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:43:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Benazir Bhutto assassinated: proof positive of Twitter’s utility? http://michaelgracie.com/2007/12/28/benazir-bhutto-assassinated-proof-positive-of-twitter%e2%80%99s-utility/ http://michaelgracie.com/2007/12/28/benazir-bhutto-assassinated-proof-positive-of-twitter%e2%80%99s-utility/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:55:27 +0000 Michael Gracie http://michaelgracie.com/2007/12/28/benazir-bhutto-assassinated-proof-positive-of-twitter%e2%80%99s-utility/

Via Dennis Howlett of ZDNet:

If anyone needed convincing of Twitter’s business utility, today is that day.

Questions:

  • Was getting the Bhutto information faster via Twitter than say Google News?
  • How many people would one have to follow on Twitter to get all the relevant news they need?

    • and…

  • How many “I’m eating chocolate chip ice cream right now” tweets would one have to parse through to obtain the important data?
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