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cpeterso on Nov 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter is Pivoting

Twitter is like RSS for people who don't know what RSS is. And I mean that in a good way. :)

swohns on Nov 19, 2012 [–]

Totally agree, I think Twitter understands this too, their their recent work in NLP to analyze trends, and grouping tweets to create adhoc discussion board like centralizations of discussions.

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