Twitter knows that one of its greatest strengths, the largely unfiltered fire-hose of information the service spurts out at around 95 million tweets per day, is also its greatest weakness.

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Twitter followed suit: Its private accounts are rare, meaning Twitter's fire-hose of updates is becoming an invaluable stream of the world's consciousness (incidentally, this month saw that stream licensed to both Microsoft and Google to bolster their search efforts).

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Draghi re-financing operations are more a band-aid than a fire hose, providing temporary support but not a long-lasting solution.

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Topsy uses Twitter's high-volume fire hose of data to look at every tweet in the world, and establish a neutral baseline.

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Video from the scene showed people clambering on the wreckage -- including parts of the fallen plane -- and working together to hold up what appeared to be a fire hose.

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His reorganization of the state budget sought to eliminate the root of the shortfalls, not simply eliminate various state-funded programs that would have amounted to bringing a garden hose to a wild fire.

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When their 3-meters long robot, nicknamed "Anna Konda", is connected to a fire hose the hydraulics enable it to project a powerful stream of water and give it enough power to lift 650 kilograms, strong enough, its developers believe, to punch a hole through a door or wall to get to the flames.

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