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		c1sc0 on July 16, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google acquires Metaweb (Freebase) Maybe a smart pre-emptive strike against twitters annotations?

neilk on July 16, 2010 | [–]

I have no idea what you mean by this. Twitter is not trying to become a database or Wikipedia. Tweets are short communications and signalling, which they want to enrich with more data for specialized applications.

mark_l_watson on July 16, 2010 | [–]

That is an interesting idea!

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