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c1sc0
on July 16, 2010
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Maybe a smart pre-emptive strike against twitters annotations?
neilk
on July 16, 2010
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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
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That is an interesting idea!
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