Twitter is better than police at predicting riots, and it's unsettling
 

Twitter is better than police at predicting riots, and it's unsettling
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If you always kind of thought that Twitter is faster than authorities in accurately identifying threats, you're **t that far from the truth.*

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New research from Cardiff University, which analysed 1.6 million tweets from the London 2011 riots, has **ticed that the micro-blogging platform can be used to detect dangerous situations up to an hour faster than police reports.*

To do so, researchers created event detection algorithms that use various features of Twitter data — like sentiment, frequency of tweets containing certain words, and geolocation and timing of the tweets — to cluster "similar" content and produce interpretable summaries.* Read more...

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