Quote by: James Gleick

Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, the Twitter corpus lacks the latticework of hyperlinks that makes Google's algorithms so potent. Twitter's famous hashtags - #sandyhook or #fiscalcliff or #girls - are the crudest sort of signposts, not much help for smart searching.


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Author Bio


  • NameJames Gleick
  • DescriptionAuthor, journalist, and biographer
  • BornAugust 1, 1954
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist
  • WorksThe Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood; Chaos: Making A New Science