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ams6110 on Sept 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter is a tragic tale

Maybe because 95% of the data stream on Twitter is meaningless, random, stream-of-consciousness stuff?

joezydeco on Sept 30, 2012 [–]

There are some that disagree that the noise is useless:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3003

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