Those portals can still provide a firehose of traffic, but they now have company.
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Is it simply Schadenfreude or is the real-time news firehose rendering the once-immutable paradigm of reputation capital obsolete?
Whereas FDR ushered in fireside chats, Obama is tapping into the Twitter Firehose.
But if what you want is a real firehose of visitors, no newfangled social network can compete with the Drudge Report.
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These research requests were perhaps heightened by some of the changes that Twitter has made to its API and firehose access.
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Back then, it was obvious that search was going to be a very important niche for organizing the firehose of data on the Web.
But the firehose of inbound information has flooded all those systems.
That is to say that the SMS firehose of cash that phone carriers have been sipping from for so many years was always going to dry up.
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No one knows if Mr Obama's fiscal firehose will work.
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Today more than ever before, if you want to harness the digital firehose and prove ROI, you need a C-suite with a cohesive team, not one that is constantly readjusting.
The only way Google can make any money here is if the underlying newspaper pages are carrying Google ads (which many of them do) and the newspapers themselves get a cut of the money from the firehose of page views that Google News can deliver.
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