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Overheard in NYC

Foreigner (walking by):  “Wow, I didn’t realize how bad the American economy was…”

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H.G. Welles’ War of the Worlds was broadcast over radio in 1938.  Disguised as a regular broadcast, it caused a panic amongst its listeners who thought the events were real.

I’m pretty sure if it had been broadcast through Twitter, it would have gone something like this (read from the bottom up):

Digg’s Kevin Rose, Twitter’s second most popular user with 64,572 followers, follows only 104 Twitter accounts.  It made me wonder:  who’s influencing one of Twitter’s most influential users?

While looking through his list, I noted forward-thinking technologists, in-the-know tech journalists and the Cobra Commander (awesome).  But, I also picked up on another pattern:

Top Row:  vikkichowney, adholden, Poshy, iphonegirl
Middle Row:  MelKirk, kevinrose, Aubs
Bottom Row:  leahculver, ericased, arielwaldman, AllieOops

Well-played, sir.

XTRP is one of the models used for Hurricane tracking.  While I agree projecting a hurricane’s future path is complicated, it seems like XTRP has thrown in the towel and just started drawing a line up and to the left.  (XTRP is the model with the black triangles and dotted lines).

Most recent models for Hannah:

Most recent models for Ike:

Doing some further research it appears that XTRP is just the Hurricane’s most recent movements projected forward. In other words, a very simple model that takes no future variables into account.