Comments on: Can Twitter be Used for Epidemiology Surveillance? https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-4/ Six Sigma Certification and Training Fri, 28 Feb 2025 06:41:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jim Benson https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-4/#comment-25134 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:54:05 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=1114#comment-25134 Pete,

Interesting thoughts.

How would you address the issue of relevant permanence. If you were the CDC and dealing with real time information for an outbreak – how are those messages not lost in the stream?

Do you rebroadcast? Do you invent a reader that can have tweets with expiry times?

My worry is that vital information will slip by when people are tweeting real time basketball scores or something.

]]> By: Patrick O'Shei https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-4/#comment-25133 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:11:40 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=1114#comment-25133 Buzz and what people we talking about at the “water cooler” used to be considered a desirable result with happenstance regarding the liklihood of generating either. Now, they are truely becoming the direct product of a methodical process.

In a public lecture I gave 7-8 years ago at Empire State College on Technology and Society, I noted that the interconnection of people through the communication infrastructure leads topeople knowing more about people that they had never met (and may never meet) than the people living down the street. Exciting and scary at the same time. MySpace, Facebook and Tweeter all are tools for nearly instantaneous (due to the geometric growth as you send a message out through followers/friends)dissemination and if set-up to capture it feedback.

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