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Sifting Authorities From Celebrities On Twitter
holy_calamity writes "Celebrities like Britney Spears may be the 'most followed' on Twitter, but new service PeerIndex mines the content of tweets and tracks the spread of links and phrases to reveal the hidden experts in specific areas, from cloud computing to venture capital. The authorities the site finds for a given subject often have only a few hundred followers, but the content of their tweets is known to spread widely. Could data mining tools like this be the future for people or businesses looking for new collaborators, advisers and influencers?"
It's a means for humans to interact.
If all you're getting is twaddle, maybe that's all they think you can understand.
Pretty much. The idea that anyone would go to Twitter for "experts" is, well, staggering. Twitter content it pretty much Twaddle.
It isn't a big surprise that social networks requiring friends are generally poo-poo'd on Slashdot.
It's a means for humans to interact.
You need to get out of your mom's basement more.
I hear the experts of Linux filter will include looking for terms such as dick smoking, rim job, rump roasting, gay, man on man, anal sex, getting banged up the ass by Linus.