Twitter Data

Technically, no. However, we do think it has value.

One of the easy criticisms to make about Twitter Data is that equivalent information should be extracted semantically, by analyzing the natural language of user tweets, instead of by users or applications injecting data manually. Ideally, this would be possible, but unfortunately it's not. The technology industry is a long way from truly useful natural language processing, and furthermore, not all types of data can be extracted in that way.

Until we have technology that's at least as smart as a human, structured data that is created, annotated, and curated by humans will always have a place. Will it have a place on Twitter? That's up to you.

Last updated on May 19, 2009 by Todd Fast