When Iran cracked down on journalists following its recent election, international focus turned to Twitter as citizen journalists posted 140-character reports and links to photos and videos to the site. Trouble was, it was hard to sift the useful and reliable nuggets of information from scores of tweets that included plenty of spam, useless remarks, and stray sentiments.
Few events more clearly define the newest problem on the Web: how to make sense of all that real-time information bubbling up from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, blogs, and really every single other self-publishing platform in cyberspace. Like I’ve previously mentioned (Why Twitter is failing?), there is high noise to signal ratio on social media sites. I do believe that Web 2.5 will have services built upon the main core networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN etc (Open API’s anyone?)
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