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For breaking news, like Stephen Hawking being ill, Twitter is superior to Google, says Mashable. Google is the biggest entity on the Internet. It is synonymous with “search”. It feels like it’s been around forever. It is also not able to compete with Twitter. I’m not talking about being a little bit worse than Twitter. [...] Twitter is a fast way to get news out and can be accessed from a mobile device. These are huge advantages when police or fire departments need to get news out. Increasingly I’m using Twitter Search rather than Google to research topics and find things to blog about. It’s decidedly more real-time and the results are topical and useful. Good bye Twitter. You are so old school. I’m fluttering now… No more ponderously long 140 characters tweets from Twitter. Flutter has 26 character messages. Now we can get things done faster and multi-task more. Mashable If you have the attention span to watch an entire 3 minute video, please let us know how [...] Protesters, police go online in G-20 battle Marina Pepper, one of the organizers of G-20 Meltdown, said that Twitter, the blogging tool that allows short updates to be filed, published and read via cellphones, would be used to coordinate the protests — and warn participants of possible trouble. However we are receiving disturbing reports that [...] FargoFloodStage on Twitter from the National Weather Service shows the relentless rise of the Red River and links to an ominous flood crest prediction. The river was supposed to crest at 39 feet. Now it looks to be 42 feet, something that has never happened before. Plus they are having heavy blizzards and power outages. [...] Fargo residents are using email, Facebook, and Twitter to mobilize against the incoming monster flood and to keep each other notified. Twitter is now being mentioned in the Sunday funnies, a sure sign it is going mainstream. And Doonesbury is mentioning Facebook. Twitter (and Facebook) are disruptive technologies. A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is a technological innovation that improves a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, Disruptive technologies are particularly threatening to the leaders of an existing market, because they are competition coming from an unexpected direction. Google in particular, is [...] With Twellow you enter a search phrase, like “cleantech.” It searchs, then lists Twitter users with that interest. You can view information about, then click to Follow. They also have a hierarchical directory of Twitterers by category, and lots more features too. This is a great way to find people of Twitter with interests [...] |  | ||||
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