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[ISS World Webinar] Best Practices for Scanning the Twitter Firehose
We are participating in a webinar sponsored by TeleStrategies'…
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SAFETY Act and Sports Teams - Using Twitter as an event scanner
A recent Boston Herald article reported that Major League Baseball…
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Twitter Firehose vs. Twitter API: What’s the difference and why should you care?
Users send 400 million tweets every day. Ranked as the 10th…
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[Infographic] How Police Departments Use Twitter
Police departments around the world use Twitter as a means of…
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Boston Marathon Tragedy: The Use of Twitter in a Crisis by Law Enforcement and Public Service Agencies
Overnight the Boston Police Department Twitter handle (@Boston_Police)…
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Final Results of #Poltwt Tweet-a-thon
BrightPlanet has tallied the final results from the Global Law…
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Meet Mo! - Halfway Through the Law Enforcement Tweet-a-Thon #Poltwt
We are over halfway through the 24-hour Law Enforcement Tweet-a-Thon.…
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Monitoring the Law Enforcement Tweet-A-Thon
We are less than a day away from the 24-Hour Law Enforcement…
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What industries can benefit from leveraging Big Data from the Deep Web?
Many businesses and institutions know about Big Data and know…
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Big Data for Law Enforcement - Social Media Use
We’ve collected some good reads and visuals on the use of social…