hJun 28, 2017

A paper extolls the great protester-silencing powers of birdsite.
I'm pretty sure that autocratic governments around the world are loving the good news.

Twitter detects riots faster than police, study says
The social media service can pick up on crime more than an hour faster than the police do via reports, according to researchers at Cardiff University.

https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-detects-riots-faster-than-police-reports-says-study/

Show threadWill 🌹🏴Jun 29, 2017
@h in this instance, it appears to be just the idea of scanning public posts. Not sure Masto is any different in this respect
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@datatitian That's if you ignore the temporal context and things like Recorded Future, Cambridge Intelligence, and the like.
There's a lot more than what's immediately evident, which informs my opinons, including personal experience, not based on a just a one-off paper.
Then, it's just that, my opinon FWIW :-)
Jun 29, 2017 at 4:57pmWeb