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Following the KPBS Twitter feed (part II)

After interviewing KPBS about their Twitter activity during the San Diego fires, I was curious to hear from individuals who actually used the Twitter stream for updates. In addition to my posting here, I posted a few questions on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk about how people found and used the Twitter stream. The questions and a [...]

Did you follow the KPBS Twitter feed during the San Diego fires?

Brief intro: I am interested in how people use and appropriate technology (especially new Web technology). When I read a workshop paper over the summer on Why We Twitter (Java, Song, Finin, and Tseng), I realized that microblogging services like Twitter deserved real attention from the research community. As a light-weight, free, mobile tool [...]