Well not definitively but some research by cognitive scientist Mark Changizi (R.P.I) suggests that product placement advertising actually makes a person desire to obtain the product more so than if one were to see a 30 second advertisement 10 times in a week for the same product. Why is this?

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Continuing our research into how to navigate the social and micro-blogging networks, specifically twitter, I want to dicuss the various sites and tools which can be used to draw a map of the twitterverse.  The tools fall into categories of search and survey.

Search. Like every other internet based network there are several solutions for searching the twitter world.  Each search tool is oriented towards a specific goal.  For searching against keywords there are 2 good options: Twitter Scan and Monittor.

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