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Real-time information like tweets are becoming a popular source of public health information.
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There's also a noticeable lag time between updates, meaning you don't get Tweets in real time -- another oddly ironic aspect of this single-use handheld.
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To me, this is exponential change for a new, real-time generation, weaned on tweets and instant messaging.
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By harnessing real-time public social data like tweets, blogs and YouTube videos, companies now have a view into what a customer talks and cares about.
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Google, for example, included tweets into its real-time search initiative, but that stopped over the summer.
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Within a month, one Egyptian developer built a basic proof of concept on a few webpages for Marginize, which streams tweets and other real-time commentary in the right-hand margins of a website.
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Twitter has emerged as a vital source of this real-time information, with more than 100 million users sending 250 million tweets every day on virtually every topic.
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But amidst the "craving a chocolate bar" or "watching my cat throw up a hairball" tweets, there is a serious reflection of historical context -- a real-time timeline written by regular people.
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