 | So why is Tweespeed important? Twitter’s activity is a reflection of people’s reaction and excitement about news. The above graph shows the TweeSpeed over the past 24 hours. The spike is during Michael Jackson’s death. That spike is almost double the current tweespeed. If you’re in the news business getting an alert when the Tweespeed shoots through the roof could be valuable. TweeSpeed hasn’t implemented alerts, but they do have a widget if you want TweeSpeed on your internet dashboard. Seen at O’Reilly Radar |
So quantity can be as important as quality (or to put it another way : Twitter’s quality could mainly be quantitative). This is an interesting observation to go along Matthew Hurst’s recent comment about Twitter trending terms.
• Jun 26, 2009 link notes reblogged from infoneer-pulse [via] tagged: Twitter information visualization data technology communication
