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Peter writes:
I wonder if part of the drop off is live bloggers moving to platforms like Twitter? I can tell you it seemed like there were almost as many tweets for one SIG (#bosc2011) as for the whole of #ISMB / #ECCB2011, and I personally didn’t post anything to FriendFeed but posted lots on Twitter.
Well, there’s a problem with using Twitter for analysis of conference coverage. Let’s try searching for ISMB-related tweets using the twitteR package:
library(twitteR)
ismb <- searchTwitter("ismb", 1000)
length(ismb)
# [1] 30
If we can't archive, how can anyone else?
I like Twitter – as a real-time communication tool. As a data archive? Forget it.
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