Beyond any doubt Twitter is the number one service in microblogging. With its 50million tweets a day it sits on top of “traffic chain” (term borrowed from “food chain”) and constitutes an enormous source of information.
Actually Twitter stream is a mixture of information and opinions, where a measure of the information popularity is possible thanks to the retweeting. However there is a gap in this system! Tweets are not long living. In fact their life expectation does not exceed few seconds. So catching a tweet among 50millions is like searching for a needle in a hay stack.
Because tweets carry information and information might be useful to different other people, they might use it in different ways according to their needs and objectives.
One of these objectives is to discuss information contained in the tweets and exchange opinions about them. One method to that is to reply to the original tweet with a comment. The drawback of this method is the lack of interactivity. The source of the tweet might not be available for replying or might be simply uninterested. On the other hand some other people might be happy to discuss it, but the problem is how to find them?
Besides of information a tweet carry an opinion. People interested in some news or information are logically tempted to tweet them. In other words what they do is bind their own preferences within the tweets. These people are more likely ready to talk about their tweets and discuss them.
Many products and services are trying to benefit from these two features. One of them is www.SimpleConnexion.com that tries to create discussions between people around a certain tweet.
Actually Twitter stream is a mixture of information and opinions, where a measure of the information popularity is possible thanks to the retweeting. However there is a gap in this system! Tweets are not long living. In fact their life expectation does not exceed few seconds. So catching a tweet among 50millions is like searching for a needle in a hay stack.
Because tweets carry information and information might be useful to different other people, they might use it in different ways according to their needs and objectives.
One of these objectives is to discuss information contained in the tweets and exchange opinions about them. One method to that is to reply to the original tweet with a comment. The drawback of this method is the lack of interactivity. The source of the tweet might not be available for replying or might be simply uninterested. On the other hand some other people might be happy to discuss it, but the problem is how to find them?
Besides of information a tweet carry an opinion. People interested in some news or information are logically tempted to tweet them. In other words what they do is bind their own preferences within the tweets. These people are more likely ready to talk about their tweets and discuss them.
Many products and services are trying to benefit from these two features. One of them is www.SimpleConnexion.com that tries to create discussions between people around a certain tweet.
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