Twitter is used as a social news site , it has good audience , but don’t know about the users actually because i consider the audience is too much different than a user ( too much dead accounts with many of users who is trapped by how fast of the status updated there ) .
Twitter + Swine flu :
Though , Swine Flu has pretty good impact there with quite good audience , especially when CDC , WHO and News services has its own channels . There are many of Swine flu news channels at twitter , and some are providing pretty good instantly updates about swine flu , new cases , news updates , posts , articles , and even tips for how to deal with the flu infection .
Twitter as Social data source :
The importance of the Twitter as social media is not how speed the information flow there , but also about how fast the people notified as well as share or re-tweet the info again , its also not just a data source , but its also a trends , of how much users search , tweet about certain topic . Twitter as a Data source is reflected by the usage of Twitter API by many applications and Mash-up we services those using Twitter API as real-time search engines , also web monitoring those monitor – http://monitter.com/ - twitter for the latest update in certain topics .
Twitter power :
What makes Twitter powerful is not the dedicated users who are dedicated ( addicted ) to notify , share , update , and publish news , but also its interaction with other web2.0 sphere applications ( Mash-up ) , it has a powerful API , that provides so much usage for the Data it provide in real-time .
Twitter Real-time Trend Tracking :
Many services , provides a very powerful way for tracking twitter trends , search terms , how many tweets per hour as well as detailed statistics about certain topic , all this in real-time , which is a powerful feature to know the news as it published , where it happened ( regarding Geo feature ) .
Conclusion :
Twitter as a social data source , is providing a very powerful and flexible API can be very useful for certain different projects regarding the swine flu , include tracking , monitoring Flu trends ” #swineflu , #H1N1 ………. #swineflu news” , and geo mapping the news where its located when it happened .
