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Sifting Authorities From Celebrities On Twitter 86

Posted by Soulskill from the signal-to-noise dept.
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?"

Comment Re:Contempt of Citizen (Score 1) 819

by mikerubin (#31342822) Attached to: Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn

Why does the city/county have to pay damages if the citizen wins?
In a case like this all the citizen needs to ask for/accept is that the city back down and/or change the law allowing such landscaping (or making it not illegal). Maybe they could accept attorney's fees from the county and leave it at that.

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