By following local baseball and football beat writers across the country through their Twitter accounts, Mr. Bourdett says he often gets information before it hits the mainstream. He then re-tweets the information along to his followers. [...]
Twitter is a central gathering point to talk about live events, both real world and virtual. So when popular web hosting company Rackspace experienced a major outage today, causing all kinds of online mayhem – websites from the well known TechCrunch were offline to the [...]
Like Fred Wilson and Dave Winer, I am extremely excited about the moves by Tumblr and Wordpress to leverage the Twitter API as a way to get tumbleblogging into Twitter clients.
Tumblr's David Karp explains on the Tumblr blog:
Inspired by Wordpress’ seriously clever use of Loren Brichter’s [...]
In our newspaper study, released earlier today, we developed a formula we call the Twitter Interactivity Quotient (or Twitter IQ for short) as a way of measuring how newspapers were using their accounts. If tweeting, which consists of original tweets, responses to tweets, and retweeting others’ tweets, is viewed [...]
Twitter was seemingly everywhere in 2009, with sports stars, celebrities, politicians and journalists using the micro blogging platform to promote everything from themselves to their employers to the issues they advocate for. After several years of assessing the general online presence of the top 100 U.S. newspapers, this year [...]
As 2009 wraps up, Twitter is expressing its most serious and visible signs to date of how it plans to convert its massive popularity into a profitable enterprise.
The latest is leaked screenshots of a new "contributors" feature, which aims to give businesses that utilize Twitter for online marketing, PR, [...]
We fell into Twitter somewhat accidentally in our newsroom at the London Free Press in Ontario, Canada.
The Bandidos biker gang trial was going to be a big one for the Free Press. We'd extensively covered the crime when it first happened: eight bikers' [...]
If you're wondering why I've gone a bit quiet here and on twitter recently, it's because I've been involved, for the past month or so, in a comprehensive piece of strategic consultancy for a Headshift client.
In a new post, Creating Customer Communities, over on the Headshift blog, I've [...]
I came across this really clever use of twitter this morning as London got it's first snow flurries of the season. #uksnow Map 2.0 monitors twitter for mentions of snowfall, then plots the snow on a google map. To make best use of it, you need to use a [...]
I wrote my first book after seeing Google Zeitgeist eight years ago. Maybe Twitter's first ever "Trends" will push me to get off the damn couch and finish my second.
Nah. After reviewing them, it's clear that Twitter's first trends release is, well, a bit predictable. [...]
Is your BS detector optimized to deal with the new realities of democratic media?
It’s become a truism that we’re all media creators now, from bloggers and podcasters to the most wet-behind-the-feathers Twitterer.
Along with the new freedom to [...]
Last week, I noticed via twitter (@danielbachhuber) that the Daily Tar Heel had launched an iPhone app, developed with Amuzu, Inc. Going to the link, I noticed that the Daily Illini and the Daily Sundial at Cal State-Northridge had also worked with Amuzu [...]
The Huffington Post will accept advertising in its comment sections and in the Twitter feeds it features among its pages, in an attempt to increase revenue for the high-traffic news and commentary website.
Yesterday on Twitter I started seeing links pop up to what looked to be a URL shortening service run by the Republican National Committee – www.gop.am. The site has “gop” in the URL and has branding consistent with the main RNC site – www.gop.com. So it seemed reasonable [...]
Somehow I turned my head, and while I was focusing on other things (like social business, 301works.org, and a long list of other topics) Microsyntax is breaking out everywhere.
A few weeks ago, I was pinged by Andy Mabbett about this idea of his, a new protocol for Twitter links: [...]
As the year draws to a close, China's blocking of overseas websites - including Facebook, Twitter, and thousands of other websites including this blog - is more extensive and technically more sophisticated than ever. Controls over domestic content have also been tightening. People who work for Chinese Internet companies continue [...]
Danah Boyd, Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, talked to us about privacy, transparency and what’s public in social media.
As a researcher, Boyd says she tries to look in people’s online lives (for example, she searches for random words on Twitter) to get into worlds that are different than her own. She wants to [...]
