10 Curious Facts About Twitter
This video could have also been called A BRIEF HISTORY OF TWITTER. Some of it is pretty funny and some of it is pretty interesting and it's only two and a half minutes long.
Data strategist Duncan Ross set out what would happen if someone could create an algorithm that correctly identified a terrorist from their communications 99.9% of the time -- far, far more accurate than any real algorithm - with the assumption that there were 100 terrorists in the UK. The algorithm would correctly identify the 100 terrorists. But it would also misidentify 0.01% of the UK's non-terrorists as terrorists: that’s a further 60,000 people, leaving the authorities with a still-huge problem on their hands.
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