Comments on: Magnify Creates Swine Flu News and Information Portal http://www.centernetworks.com/swine-flu-news-and-information-portal Web 2 and Social Media News and Reviews Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:19:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jared O'Toole http://www.centernetworks.com/swine-flu-news-and-information-portal/comment-page-1#comment-23764 Jared O'Toole Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:54:09 +0000 http://www.centernetworks.com/?p=15461#comment-23764 What amazes me is how quickly things like this pop up. Whenever something happens it seems within 24hrs there are websites and apps tracking its every move. Pretty crazy from the old days of creating websites. What amazes me is how quickly things like this pop up. Whenever something happens it seems within 24hrs there are websites and apps tracking its every move. Pretty crazy from the old days of creating websites.

]]> By: Steve Rosenbaum http://www.centernetworks.com/swine-flu-news-and-information-portal/comment-page-1#comment-23756 Steve Rosenbaum Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:52:14 +0000 http://www.centernetworks.com/?p=15461#comment-23756 Allen, you've raised a good question - is twitter a 'source' or noise, or both. We put up the CDC twitter feed, but it has no activity (no new tweets). What you can't see is that our TweetCaster includes a number of content filters - so we're able to remove some noise with key word filtering, a 'dirty' word filter, and even the ability to remove Twitter users who are tweeting in a way that doesn't provide a useful voice in the conversation. This is curation, and we're still exploring the balancing act. Would love input from your readers as to how they feel about Filtered Twitter, and how we should manage it - Allen, you’ve raised a good question – is twitter a ’source’ or noise, or both. We put up the CDC twitter feed, but it has no activity (no new tweets).

What you can’t see is that our TweetCaster includes a number of content filters – so we’re able to remove some noise with key word filtering, a ‘dirty’ word filter, and even the ability to remove Twitter users who are tweeting in a way that doesn’t provide a useful voice in the conversation. This is curation, and we’re still exploring the balancing act.

Would love input from your readers as to how they feel about Filtered Twitter, and how we should manage it -

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