The San Francisco-based startup has quickly grown from a way to connect with handful of friends one 144 character message at a time into a way to dip into a deep pool of real-time news and commentary.
The app also includes real-time news feeds from the LA Times, to help guide your investments.
Real-time news is now often reported first by those on the scene who tweet what they see.
Is it simply Schadenfreude or is the real-time news firehose rendering the once-immutable paradigm of reputation capital obsolete?
The information is distributed in real time to news sites and via RSS feeds to SpotCrime Twitter and Facebook pages.
Whereas people use Twitter for real-time news and posting links, Google Plus is being used more for commentary and discussion, he says.
Fewer people are getting their real-time news from television and radio.
"It showed the way this live, real-time news on television was going to change the dynamics of how major players responded to dramatic events and crises, " said Chinoy.
The business, begun in 2007, now has dozens of hedge funds, mutual funds and large banks as clients, all of which have embraced social media more aggressively in the past year, said Armando Gonzalez, chief executive of the real-time news analysis firm.
But I think that dismissing the YouTube livestream achievement as trivial is like the joke about the talking dog that was criticized for not enunciating properly: the real point is that YouTube has blown post being merely a repository for archived video and is now a prominent force in live, real-time national news coverage.
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Last time any real significant news came out it was simply a confirmation that the book would indeed be adapted into three feature films - a move, I might add, that I find rather peculiar.
"This is a real big deal because now hundreds of millions of Gmail users can make phone calls right from their Gmail page, " Craig Walker, product manager for real-time communications told BBC News.
Outdated by faster news outlets providing real time updates via the web, or television.
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Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system is built for touchscreen devices like tablets, too, and it offers a lot of advantages over iOS. All Windows 8 apps can run in a split screen so you can run two at once, plus the main menu is capable of displaying real-time updates for stuff like news and weather.
So, those few Spanish producers robust enough to survive the flow of cheaper panels, will have a hard time living without real, solid good news before the investigation finally runs its course.
In their research paper, the two scientists say that using a mixture of archived news reports and real-time data, they were able to see links between droughts and storms in parts of Africa and cholera outbreaks.
One more handy feature: the unit is expected to take advantage of the TomTom plus traffic service via your phone's GPRS connection, providing real time traffic information as well as weather, news, and additional features.
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The app aggregates news feeds from multiple UN agencies and programs and delivers news in one integrated, real-time stream.
Sickweather claims to be different because it operates in real time using data from social networks, rather than news reports or internet search terms, and is designed for use by individuals, rather than public health officials.
By orchestrating their high-risk missions in a way that spoke to the values of their brands, and broadcasting the news-making events in real-time to huge audiences, both America and Red Bull tapped into what I believe are the key tenets of effective storytelling.
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To promote this real-time sharing, Facebook also announced partnerships with Yahoo News, Netflix, Hulu, foodie social network Foodspotting and others.
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Best Buy ( BBY - news - people ) to offer real-time inventory information about product availability at local stores.
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Salesforce.com ( CRM - news - people ) shares a real-time overview of its platform's security and performance, including live and historical data on system performance.
The fight was expected, but the real surprise came with the news that Mayweather would leave long-time partner HBO for a pay-per-view deal with Showtime Networks.
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Moreover, the terrorists created their own operations center across the border in Pakistan, where they monitored global news broadcasts, online reporting and social media in real time, leveraging the public's photos, videos and social network updates to kill more people.
"All the play-by-play action on the field now comes to life in real time on ConnecTV with a stream of deep stats, player bios, news and more, " said former Oakland Raider Tim Brown, who chats with fans on ConnecTV.
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Don't expect to see any real economic improvement or any good news in the labor market for a long time.
But the good news is that the SEC seems to be getting the real-time religion, albeit through the back door, and not explicitly in the Consolidated Audit Trail.
Business Suite on HANA may very well be the only product on the market to feature real-time analytical business applications on one in-memory platform, as IT news site ZDNet noted Thursday.
Hand it to the publisher and editors at Forbes that they are moving Forbes.com from an on-line magazine to a bi-directional, real-time site for information and insight to the world of business and economic news.
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