Twitter As a Window into Real Time Sentiment Monitoring: Trash Talking American Airlines

Eric Gundersen — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:53:21 +0000

Posting to Twitter, a micro blogging community, via SMS makes it easy to share one liners (up to 140 characters) with all your friends at once, from anywhere. I post on Twitter about where I am going to be at night, what I am reading and working on, about how I am feeling. Anyone else who uses Twitter that wants to "follow" me can get these updates.

The result is a pretty amazing space shifting tool that allows me to connect with a lot of people about things otherwise too mundane to share outside of my immediate company. Think of it almost like a status message you broadcast out to the world (in fact, you can twitter your Facebook status message).

For example,

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Twitter As a Window into Real Time Sentiment Monitoring: Trash Talking American Airlines