The ubiquitous access to mobile phones, and the ease of sending SMSes, has dramatically democratized citizen reporting. In a recent post on the digital news life cycle, I argued that “from this moment onwards, every accident worth reporting, anywhere in
yourTwapperKeeper leverages many of the key components of the TwapperKeeper.com web service. It allows users to add keyword / hashtags they want to track and provide additional metadata to describe the archive. It also provides the ability to view the data in multiple formats (HTML, EXCEL, RSS, JSON).
A study of social interactions within Twitter reveals that the driver of usage is a sparse and hidden network of connections underlying the declared set of friends and followers.
