I am a news savy or I try to be one. I would like to know about the topic as soon as possible. Recently, people started talking about real time feed. And when they say that, they essentially means Twitter feed. They are real time feed because people are tweeting about it somewhere out in real world. In contrast, a search result on web is not considered real time as those are indexed by a web spider at some point of time. That means, ideally real time feed is the best place for me to check about the latest topic. Ok, that make sense. I go to twitter and look at the trending topics. But that just tells me about the topic but not what about it. Sure, I can then look through what people are talking about it. But most of the time, a tweet in itself does not make sense. Sometime people emote about the item. Sometime people talk in twitter code language that I can't understand. After spending some more time, I might be able to understand what the heck is going on. That's OK way to know about something. Let's see the alternative. I take a trending topic and I do a Google/Bing news search. I tried this for some of the trending topic. For most part, I got some very recently published article about it. In this manner, I get all the information at one place and I do not need to compose a story from multiple tweets.
This brings me back to where I started this article. Where should I go to get the recent news? Why would I ever want to start with real feeds at first place ? A news aggregator/indexer service such as google/bing anyways surface those articles quickly. So why would I ever bother about real time feed ?
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