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A script that validates car bomb events in Iraq
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Identify Report Uniqueness By URL #6

Closed mgrube closed 10 years ago

mgrube commented 10 years ago

So before we can hope to identify individual events, we need first to distinguish individual reports. We need to do this by following URLs. We can use this as another factor to decide whether to bother volunteers with an alert or not.

I'll take up this one.

mgrube commented 10 years ago

I've added some lines to our python code that follow links to their end points so we can identify individual reports. We also now no longer alert tweets that do not contain links.

The next step is to check to see what URLs have already been reported. This will be the next change I make.

mgrube commented 10 years ago

We now follow URLs and do not ask users to validate stories that have already been verified. Closing issue.