Archive for the 'twitter' Category
Is Voice-Based Bubbly the New Twitter?
March 12th, 2010Ad Age – “In India, thousands of consumers are going from tweeting to bubbling. Bollywood stars Kareena Kapoor and Aamir Khan began using Bubbly and talking about it ahead of the premiere of their hit film ‘Three Idiots.’ A hot new social networking service dubbed “Bubbly,” which is essentially a voice-based Twitter, is quickly gaining [...]
Twitter unveils tool to share tweeting locations
March 12th, 2010AP – “Twitter can now let the world automatically know your whereabouts as well as your thoughts and activities. A new feature unveiled Thursday gives Twitter users the option of including their location with the assorted musings posted on the Internet messaging service.”
White House tweeting spreads president’s message
March 8th, 2010AP – “Blending behind-the-scenes nuggets with a defense of President Barack Obama’s record, White House and administration officials increasingly are communicating through Twitter. The popular social network is operating as a Web-based clearinghouse for public statements on weighty subjects (the federal budget) and the mundane (personal grocery lists). It’s similar to a bulletin board where [...]
Twitter, Google Buzz: Get The Whole Story
February 18th, 2010Forbes – ” With all these new social media technologies, from Twitter to the new Google Buzz, we are about to enter a golden age of communication, one in which information can be shared with friends and associates with an immediacy and intimacy never before possible. Wait. Haven’t we seen this movie before?
W.H. messaging in 140 characters
February 16th, 2010Politico – “The White House has started using a new weapon for correcting news reports, pushing back against a negative story, or shaping the press corps narrative of the day: Twitter. On Monday, deputy press secretary Bill Burton told his more than four thousand followers — which includes much of the White House press corps [...]
Tweeting a book by its cover
February 9th, 2010Cnet – “a new project from non-profit biannual magazine Slice, based in Brooklyn, tries to show us that something is lost on a Kindle commute. Meet CoverSpy, a Twitter feed run by Slice, which peeks at the books that people are reading on the New York City subway (as well as on park benches and [...]
Google Beats Twitter for “Word of the Decade”
January 11th, 2010WSJ – “If you have any doubts about the pervasive nature of the Internet and social networking in our life these days, doubt no more. The American Dialect Society (ADS) has selected “google” – the verb not the noun – as its top word of the decade and “tweet” – a short message sent via [...]
Why Twitter Will Endure
January 5th, 2010NYT – “In the pantheon of digital nomenclature — brands within a sector of the economy that grew so fast that all the sensible names were quickly taken — it would be hard to come up with a noun more trite than Twitter. It impugns itself, promising something slight and inconsequential, yet another way to [...]
Twitter new, helpful tool for county libraries
November 29th, 2009Cumberland Times – “Interested in meeting the Allegany County Bookmobile at Hannah Plaza in Cresaptown but running late? Now you can simply log on to Twitter and see if the Bookmobile is on schedule. The Allegany County Library System is using Twitter and other social networking sites as yet another way to bring the [...]
Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Users
October 25th, 2009NYTimes – “Twitter’s smart enough, or lucky enough, to say, ‘Gee, let’s not try to compete with our users in designing this stuff, let’s outsource design to them,’ ” said Eric von Hippel, head of the innovation and entrepreneurship group at the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. and author of the book “Democratizing Innovation.”
How High Will Real-Time Search Fly?
October 24th, 2009NYT – “No one doubts that helping users find fresh, up-to-the-minute content on the Web is valuable. But plenty of other valuable Web services — including content sites, free Web e-mail and social networks — have struggled to find effective business models. Analysts say Twitter may well find ways other than search to make money [...]
Twitter tries charity with Room to Read
October 15th, 2009USA Today – “Twitter is partnering for the first time with a charity as part of a Corporate Social Innovation initiative. Today, it said it is teaming with Room to Read, a San Francisco-based non-profit that helps educate children in developing countries.”
Time for Twitter to Charge Tolls
October 15th, 2009PC World – “Two very important results would happen if Twitter went to a modest-annual-fee model. A lot of the information pollution on Twitter would be cleaned up, and Twitter would have another steady source of income. Running a company as globally important as Twitter with some 60 employees does not make sense. No way [...]
Critics say franking rules should change to suit the age of Twitter
October 14th, 2009The Hill – “Congress should re-evaluate the franking rules to further accommodate Twitter and other social-media tools, according to several critics. They say rules regulating content are too rigid and outdated, preventing lawmakers from taking full advantage of Twitter to share candid observations and communicate better with constituents.”
Follow and Win
October 13th, 2009Phoenix Public Library is holding a Twitter contest.
When is a secret not a secret?
October 13th, 2009When it’s on Twitter.
High court approves injunction via Twitter
October 1st, 2009Guardian (UK) – “The legal tradition of serving court papers to a defendant could be consigned to history, after the high court ordered an injunction to be served via social messaging service Twitter for the first time.”
NLM on Twitter
September 17th, 2009Follow them, if you want.
Book on Euphemisms
September 17th, 2009Heh
New Jersey Judiciary Now Tweeting
September 7th, 2009Social Media Law Student – “In a recent press release, the New Jersey Judiciary announced that new social media features would be used on their website to keep the community, including lawyers, informed.”
Oxford dictionary studies Twitter
September 7th, 2009Future Tense – “The average sentence length of a Twitter message is 1.40 sentences. Gerunds are more popular on Twitter than off. The second most popular word on Twitter is “I.”
Study: Twitter is 40 percent ‘pointless babble’
August 14th, 2009The Social – “Surprise! A full 40.5 percent of posts on Twitter–or tweets, as they’re called–can be classified as “pointless babble,” according to a new study from Pear Analytics. Coming in second was “conversational,” which the company says makes up 37.55 of all tweets.”
Teaching the twists and turns of Twitter at Johnston library
August 13th, 2009The Des Moines Register – “Johnston librarian Cheryl Heid chose to teach a class on the basics of Twitter after getting inquiries on how to use the social networking Web site from patrons. “I get a lot of questions at the library about (Twitter) and how it works,” Heid said. “Social networking is here [...]
From the Library: It’s all in the delivery
August 3rd, 2009The Daily News Transcript – “Everyone’s doing it!” I’d been told. And so, a year or so ago I decided it was time to tweet and I signed up for an account on Twitter.com. Librarians had actually been hearing about Twitter since its arrival on the social media scene in 2006. Those of us who [...]
Soccer star fined for tweet dissing club owner
August 1st, 2009Technically Incorrect – “Darren Bent is known for his creative ways of missing scoring opportunities. So it is perhaps surprising that he managed to hit home with some telling verbal strikes against his club’s chairman, Daniel Levy. The only problem was that he did it on Twitter.”
Remember when blogs first came out and [...]
Palin’s Twitter Impersonators Show Challenge of Tweet Control
July 8th, 2009Bloomberg.com – “Sarah Palin’s clash with people impersonating her on Twitter has spotlighted the challenge celebrities face in managing what’s Tweeted about them. Palin, after resigning as governor of Alaska last week, warned on July 4 that fake Tweets about her were untrue.”
Cybercrooks descend on Twitter with spam, attacks
July 6th, 2009USATODAY – “Cybercriminals are rapidly using Twitter— the popular Web-messaging service — to direct users to websites that sell porn and fake drugs and trigger promotions for fake anti-virus subscriptions.”
Forget Twitter, library wants to be new social hub
July 1st, 2009Folsom Telegraph – “Rather than using Facebook or Twitter for social networking, one local library is doing things the old fashioned way — discussing books. This summer, librarians Julie Rinaldi and Regina Maduell are planning events at the Folsom Public Library that will get adults together to talk about novels they have read. The [...]
A Day With 400 Tweets Starts With Simplicity
July 1st, 2009NYTimes.com – “Bonnie Smalley has Internet bragging rights: She has been blocked by Twitter for hand-typing too many tweets in an hour. They thought she was a computer program made to spew spam. Ms. Smalley, it turns out, is a 100 percent human customer service representative for Comcast.”
Bing brings out the tweets
July 1st, 2009CNET – “Bing will now surface results for certain celebrities (leading to the odd pairing of search guru Danny Sullivan and American Idol host Ryan Seacrest in the same sentence) when users search on their names and “twitter,” the company announced Wednesday afternoon. It’s not indexing all of Twitter, instead picking “a few thousand people [...]
