As the page put it9/6/09; 3:15:02 AM Pacific
What are the people of Berkeley saying on Twitter?
The Berkeley river asked the newspaper's question about a place instead of an institution. Its nav linked to a post on a local Berkeley site, inBerkeley, dated September 2, 2009, under the same headline. The capture is from four days later.
The scale is the striking part. The top-100 table counted followers in the hundreds of thousands and millions. Most of the 31 Berkeley accounts in this capture had a few hundred. The median was 350. The river mixed a community news feed, an environmental group, a university science feed, a food truck and a Linux users' group with residents posting about their evenings, and it read like a neighborhood.
The page's 100 tweets reached back about nine and a half hours, spread across an evening and the early hours of a September night. A place river moved slower than a celebrity one, and you could actually read it.