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Re:The questionable value of the real-time web - Demand-side... by greyman on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @11:10AM (#919573)
I find twitter search useful. For example, when I was shopping for a newly released netbook, I searched the keyword on twitter for a few days, to see what people say about it and what new reviews are being released. After a few days, I was able to detect the "mood", in other words, how people feel about the product. That is very hard to achieve with just reading a professional review.

More generally, if I want to know what now is happening about something, twitter can usually deliver that.

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Re:The questionable value of the real-time web - Demand-side... by ivenkys on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @11:21AM (#919597)
"I searched the keyword on twitter for a few days"

There, you have used Twitter in the fashion of the "traditional" web, you just went to a RTW source thats all.

My point is i generally don't have any use for what "now" is happening, anything that is of importance generally has a longer time span and relevance to me and i don't "need" to know it straight away.

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