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=The Coming-of-age=
''After 3 days+ of ungoverned reconnaissance, herein lies a comprehensive update of my beliefs regarding the Twitterverse, Twitter mining and the dream case that we seek from Twitter, here at McNair.''
==Beliefs Update==
*Fundamentally, one ought to think of Twitter as an interest group, not a social network. Analogously, Twitter represents the degree of interest in, for instance, '''#ycombinator''', not the stable business and personal connections made to and fro '''@ycombinator'''. It also houses everyone from the very important @barackobama to the fictional and frivolous @homersimpson. At the outset, Twitter represent trends than material fact. The following-follower relationship is mono-directional and voyeuristic, representing what people care and think about, instead of who they really are and what they really do. Twitter activity happens at the speed of thought (140 chars) and represents our rapidly-changing minds and perceptions.
<blockquote>At this level, let's consider the classical aspect of Twitting mining: ''Network Visualization''. This is sociological and concerned with the self-organization of interest-based communities. It primarily provides us with a sense of social roles in an interest group; broadcastor vs receiver, influencer vs influenced. We can also learn about the quantity of interest in a social group, and, when measured over time, the delta/changes in this quantity within the group. We gain knowledge about trends that rise and fall, people that move in and out of the interest group.</blockquote>
*Digging a little deeper beyond the superficial exchange, we think qualitatively about tweets. What people care about reflects some material facts about their material selves. , , for instance, which accelerator signed with To mine Twitter, therefore, is to be interested in trends.
*The three most prominent, popular and important forms of Twitter mining can be classified loosely into 3 categories:
#Twitter analytics
==Twitter Mining==
==Dream Case==
=Field Notes=
