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• n  the time interval between the initiation and the completion of a production process

News & Articles

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• Twitter Vs. Mainstream Media: Science Proves Which Breaks News Faster
  The revolution will not be televised, but it might be tweeted. A new study shows that Twitter has a lead time on newswires for certain stories--including sports, disasters, and sometimes riots. The Boston bombings gave us a glimpse into the contentious world of Twitter news-breaking. Vigilante investigators took to Twitter and Reddit to find the bombers, and soon the names “Sunil Tripathi” and ...
  July 9, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine
• The revolution will not be televised, but it might be tweeted. A new study shows that Twitter has a...
  “The revolution will not be televised, but it might be tweeted. A new study shows that Twitter has a lead time on newswires for certain stories—including sports, disasters, and sometimes riots.” - Twitter Vs. Mainstream Media: Science Proves Which Breaks News Faster
  July 9, 2013 - CyberJournalist.net
• It’s Not Just Thomson Reuters – Elite Investors Get Tons of Unfair Advantages: Blodget
  Two seconds: that’s the lead time a select group of investors had to receive a copy of the University of Michigan consumer confidence report before other institutional investors. While two seconds may not sound like much, it was often worth millions of dollars to high-frequency traders who account for about half of all daily U.S. [...]
  July 8, 2013 - Yahoo! Finance: The Daily Ticker