Discovery Engines: Policing The Riot Of Information Overload

Why can’t anyone tame the social stream and just give us the good stuff? Illustration by Debaser Every minute of every day , the more than a half-billion members of Facebook collectively create almost 1 million photos, wall posts, status updates, and other bits of ephemera. The firehose at Twitter looks tame by comparison–the network sees more than 125,000 tweets a minute, only half of them about (or from) randy congressmen.

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Discovery Engines: Policing The Riot Of Information Overload