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Not to disagree, only to clarify, our suggestion is with any Event of momentum, the beginnings offer more signal and can quickly degrade in quality as others jump on. Education will help.
The beginning info flow of the Mumbai Event has most of the facts available as we pieced together tweets & RSS. An issue remains - very few of us have the web presence to broadcast these facts to affect the trajectory of the bandwagon ![]()
Thanks for the clarification - and your observations! Interesting that the early entrants had very high total ratio, that miht be a way of filtering?
Do you think Education will help, or will the temptation to bandwagon be too strong?
Twitter is not taking CNN's business; It just offers the medium. People would rather trust information from peers rather than a central organization. Definitely someone can transmit hoaxes via those online networks, but collective intelligence will filter those out. "Don't trust everything you read?" - I think that applies very well to the CNN case, and all the big media organizations...
Alan,
Our algo's are based on filtering the beginnings of what ever the Event is. In the beginning of an Event, it's not a search problem, it's a perception problem. The sooner perception is validated, the Event can be filtered (tagged). Education & collective change must help. Otherwise the continued pattern of 'the few who know' remains king and our collective World continues with escalating crisis of all kinds.
@Ntino I guess we are seeing the same half filled glass differently, I contend that in the Mumbai case collective intelligence did not filter the stuff out, it egged it on.
@Tweetips ditto re Education, I suspect without some form of barrier to entry or filtering this pattern will re-occur. |
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