Increasing popularity of social networks

Twitter as one of the most popular social networks has been mentioned several times by various articles.

You can look for them by click the label 'tweet'.

#tweet

Twitterspace Nature 477, 7364 (2011). doi:10.1038/477364a Author: William Meikle Careless talk.

Scientists: Time to tweet

@chip_small

Time to tweet Nature (2011). doi:10.1038/nj7371-141a Author: Gaston Small Ecologist Gaston Small uses social media to talk about his work. Others, he says, must join him.

Social media can be used to predict social activity?! [Twitter]

This kind of research must be interesting! However, the conclusion may not so accurate because many people in some areas cannot access these media. Hence at the current stage of development, the first trial is going to be confined to Latin America. Sample is a problem!

In this kind of research, some institutes who control the knots to monitor the internet flow will have the definite advantage. Right now, I think the winner will be USA as they have the most IP control server (I do not know much about IT science, hope no problem here for understanding).

Futurology: Spies to use Twitter as crystal ball Nature 478, 7369 (2011). http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111019/full/478301a.html Author: Sharon Weinberger US intelligence agency aims to forecast unrest by reading the runes of social media.

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Researchers tweet technical talk

As I said in another post. The discussion of the impact of social network on research will be followed.

The other post: http://qfhou.blogspot.com/2011/05/fw-can-facebook-influence-funding.html

Researchers tweet technical talk Nature 474, 7352 (2011). http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110620/full/474431a.html Author: Eugenie Samuel Reich:: In the latest trend in scientific discourse, journal clubs and data disclosures move to Twitter.

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