Archive for the 'twitter' Category
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 [...]
Headline Blogging: Elevating the Twitter Conversation
June 23rd, 2009EcontentMag – “Our little Twitter is growing up. The time has come for us to come to terms with this fact, and take our Tweets to the next level. Mature Twitterers (those of us who have been around longer than Ashton Kutcher) are tired of the noise, and certainly don’t want to be the ones [...]
Companies take time to Twitter
June 21st, 2009NJ.com – “Gary Vaynerchuk’s powerhouse wine business was largely engineered by his Twitter alter ego: @garyvee. Sitting in his quiet third-floor office, he spends much of the workday deftly penetrating the Twittersphere. “I’ll do this for hours,” he said, loading his Twitter page and scanning the replenishing feed of short posts — called [...]
Marketing now a must
June 20th, 2009The Honolulu Advertiser – “Clergy turn to blogging, YouTube, Twitter to build congregations”
Twitter Search Share: .001 Percent!
June 17th, 2009Of course, this will change
Twitter brings new language to old institution, the Senate
June 16th, 2009Yahoo! News – “Grassley is one of an estimated 30 senators and more than 100 members of the House of Representatives who use Twitter — quite a development in an institution where messengers still bow when they enter the Senate chamber and votes are taken by members often putting their thumbs up or down. The [...]
State Department to Twitter: Keep Iranian tweets coming
June 16th, 2009Anderson Cooper 360 – “Senior officials say the State Department is working with Twitter and other social networking sites to ensure Iranians are able to continue to communicate to each other and the outside world. By necessity, the US is staying hands off of the election drama playing out in Iran, and officials say they [...]
Working the Social: Twitter and FriendFeed
June 15th, 2009Library Journal – “Information overload is so five years ago, but the problem it describes is all too real. Fortunately, there's hope yet for the savvy librarian: Twitter and FriendFeed turn information dissemination on its head, using friends and subscribers as a filter for the best, most credible, and most engaging information out there. As [...]
CNN’s Coverage of Iran Protests Criticized
June 14th, 2009NYTimes – “Protesters’ comments on Twitter were quickly noticed by CNN, which defended its coverage. The social networking blog Mashable said Twitter was acting as a “media watchdog.”
Hey, Just a Minute (or Why Google Isn’t Twitter)
June 14th, 2009NYTimes.com – “TECHNOLOGY blogs have wondered whether Google is a lumbering giant in this Twitter moment, unable to handle streams of tweets that were broadcast just seconds earlier.”
Historical Search of 220 Million Twitter Messages
June 10th, 2009Tweet Scan Blog – Today, I humbly announce Tweet Scan Historical Search. Travel back as far as November 1st, 2007 in our 222 million message database”
Twitterers defy China’s firewall
June 9th, 2009BBC NEWS – “On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen killings, social networking sites such as Twitter and the photo-sharing site Flickr were blocked in China in an attempt by the government to prevent online discussion on the subject”
Twitter user says vacation tweets led to burglary
June 9th, 2009CNET News – “Here's either a cautionary tale or an example of social-media paranoia. An Arizona man believes that his Twitter messages about going out of town led to a burglary at his home while he was away.”
Mayors in NJ and CA popular ‘tweeters’
June 6th, 2009The Associated Press – “Newark Mayor Cory Booker and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom are blazing a new trail in political discourse from opposite sides of the country as they build huge Internet followings on Twitter's fast-growing social network.”
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live
June 4th, 2009TIME – “The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your “followers,” and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around [...]
Study: Young adults haven’t warmed up to Twitter
June 2nd, 2009CNET News – “While 99 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds have profiles on social networks, only 22 percent use Twitter, according to a new survey from Pace University and the Participatory Media Network. This is consistent with what some observers have said about Twitter's recent push from early-adopter territory into the mainstream: that it's catching [...]
New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets
June 2nd, 2009Conversation Starter – “We examined the activity of a random sample of 300,000 Twitter users in May 2009 to find out how people are using the service. We then compared our findings to activity on other social networks and online content production venues. Our findings are very surprising.”
The four stages of the average Twitter user
May 11th, 2009ZDNet – “There’s a strange phenomenon that happens almost every time someone joins Twitter. They hate it. At least at first. But many of the people who once hated Twitter — or at least, didn’t quite get it in the beginning — are now many of its most active users and raving fans. So [...]
Goodreads vs Twitter: The Benefits of Asymmetric Follow
May 10th, 2009O’Reilly Radar – “I am never more painfully reminded of the limits of symmetric “friend”-based social networks than I am when I post a book review on Goodreads. I love books, and I love spreading the word about ones I enjoy (as well as ones I expected to enjoy, but didn’t quite). Most of [...]
Why a Google & Twitter marriage makes sense
May 10th, 2009Pandia – “Twitter has many suitors, among them Apple and Microsoft. Still, regardless of how much we admire Apple, the match that really makes sense to us is the one between Twitter and Google.”
Why We Tweet
May 3rd, 2009InformationWeek – “There are lots of reasons why Twitter matters and why we Tweet. But in the final analysis, we Tweet because it’s there.”
College recruiters are Twittering, too
April 30th, 2009USATODAYCollege admissions officials, keenly aware that their target audience grows more tech-savvy with every passing year, appear to be getting the hang of social media such as Twitter and Facebook. (via)
Twitter in Real Life
April 29th, 2009Watch Real Life Twitter and more funny videos on CollegeHumor
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Tracking Swine Flu on Google, Twitter
April 28th, 2009AllThingsD – In the wake of the outbreak of swine flu, a debate is emerging as to whether social networking sites and technology are just creating panic rather than helping the populace stay informed. On Twitter, the terms “swine flu,” “#swineflu,” “CDC” and “Mexico” were among the top phrases used on the social messaging service [...]
Corporate Blogs and ‘Tweets’ Must Keep SEC in Mind
April 26th, 2009WSJ – “Social Media Offer Immediacy and Spontaneity to Communications but Risk Running Afoul of Regulations.”
Twitter sometimes raw and real
April 25th, 2009 Statesman – “On Twitter, the most disturbing sound is no sound at all.”
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Journalists Are a Chatty Bunch, as CNN Finds Out on Twitter
December 7th, 2008NYTimes – “CNN says it wants newspaper feedback as it creates a news wire service to compete with The Associated Press and other services. At a meeting last week, one newspaper staff member offered his advice — and shared the framework of CNN’s plans — in real time on the social messaging Web site Twitter.”
Crowdsourcing ideas about libraries in 2009: a Twitter story
December 7th, 2008Liberal Education Today – “One informal, Twitter-based crowdsourcing experiment yielded useful results this week. During the start of a conversation with a group of librarian’s, NITLE’s research director quickly Tweeted (posted to Twitter) a general query for feedback on a big question”
