Microsoft Research - Researchers Ride the Twitter Wave

Researchers Ride the Twitter Wave - Microsoft Research: "No fewer than a half-dozen Microsoft Research interns are pursuing various Twitter-related projects this summer, five of them based at Microsoft Research New England. That makes sense, because that facility includes one of the world’s foremost social-media experts, danah boyd. And, as she notes, Twitter provides an enticing opportunity for researchers, not for its technological advances, but because of how people use it."