Because everything eventually becomes an academic field (I'm still waiting for "Internet" to become a major), researchers from MIT, University of Southampton and Georgia Institute of Technology have teamed up to build Who Gives A Tweet, a Twitter app that allows users to anonymously rate their friends' and strangers' tweets in order gain more insight into status update perception. While plenty of apps like Twitalyzer and Twitter Grader�try to measure your social media engagement or whatever that means, the Who Gives A Tweet study attempts to parse what is valuable and not so valuable about microblogging content. Says Michael Bernstein, PhD student at MIT, "Analysing the negatively rated tweets, and the consensus that forms around them, will help us understand the emerging approved or accepted norms in these new forms of online communication."
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