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Copyright 2011 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved.
Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie
Enabling Networked Knowledge
Annotating Microblog Posts with Sensor Data for Emergency Reporting
ApplicationsDavid N. Crowley, Alexandre Passant,
John G. Breslin
Electrical & Electronic EngineeringCollege of Engineering and Informatics
Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie
Enabling Networked Knowledge
Why Microblogging?
Short format – 140 characters Mobile Web or Mobile Apps available for most
phones/all smartphones (Almost) Real-Time Posts Removes barriers to posting – short/mobile User Growth (Twitter)
Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie
Enabling Networked Knowledge
Why Twitter?
100 million active users Growth from 65 to 200 million posts per day in 1
year Available in many languages (11), most countries Information Network/Social Network Twitter APIs Twitter Annotations
Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie
Enabling Networked Knowledge
Twitter Annotations
forthcoming initiative by Twitter attach arbitrary metadata to any tweet Low limit to begin then expanding