What Twitter Tells Us
I was in the computer lab at work the other day and my coworker was watching a gamecast of a NY Yankees preseason game online. Now let me tell you, this guy is a Yankees fanatic. He's the kind of guy who has every player's batting average memorized to three decimal places. Just to give you an idea, he brought in cake for the entire lab just to celebrate the first day of Spring Training. Anyway, one of the other guys joked that throughout the season we should remotely hijack his computer at critical moments during the games and kill his browser or play other dastardly pranks. We quickly started talking about automating this process (we are software engineers, after all), and I had the idea that we should monitor twitter for tweets about the Yankeers and perform a shutdown whenever the buzz reached a certain threshold. It seemed like it might actually work, and it got me thinking about twitter and what sort of secrets it may hold. I read an article a litt...