8 Excellent Tools to Extract Insights from Twitter Streams. Twitter is now the third most popular social network, behind Facebook and MySpace (Compete, 2009).
A year ago, it has over a million users and 200,000 active monthly users sending over 3 million updates per day (TechCrunch, 2008). Those figures have almost certainly increased since then. With the torrential streams of Twitter updates (or tweets), there's an emerging demand to sieve signals from noises and harvest useful information. House Atwitter Over Rules Governing Video, Blog Posts - Politics. WASHINGTON – Texas Rep.
John Culberson uses his Blackberry to post blurbs about his work onto Twitter, a social networking site on the Internet. The Internet has set him free from unfair media reports and other barriers between him and his constituents, enabling him to better represent them in Congress, he says. But Culberson's actions have put him in possible violation of House rules that appear to ban blogging or other work-related activities on non-House Web sites. Current rules "have been interpreted to prohibit (House) members from posting official content outside of the House.gov domain," Rep. Michael Capuano, D-Mass., chairman of the Congressional Commission on Mailing Standards, better known as the franking committee, wrote in a report late last month.
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