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Likely to become a case study in putting out fire with gasoline
While it’s not surprising that Limbaugh would want to drive readers to Jacobson’s post, it is odd that he was so excited to drive them there that he embraced an entirely new platform of communication to do so! It makes it look like he knows he’s under fire, and he’s looking for new ways to combat his opponents by entering the fast-paced and often uncivil twitter-sphere
The Blog Post That Drove Rush Limbaugh to Tweet – Yahoo! News
Continue reading: The Blog Post That Drove Rush Limbaugh to Tweet – Yahoo! News [Atlantic Wire]
A big milestone for Twitter, but perhaps not as impressive as it initially seems
There are skeptics who challenge these figures. Twopcharts has noticed fluctuations with the Twitter accounts it has been checking while keeping track of the countdown to 500 million. In a blog post, the company states that out of 100,000 accounts it has looked at, many have been suspended or closed. Others are inactive, still showing the default egg profile picture. It’s disheartening to some that 53% of the sample the company is analyzing is inactive.
Will You Be Twitter’s 500 Millionth User? – Yahoo! News
Continue reading: Will You Be Twitter’s 500 Millionth User? – Yahoo! News
A time for big Twitter decisions
Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and author of “The Master Switch,” said the changes could undermine the usefulness of Twitter in authoritarian countries.
“I don’t fault them for wanting to run a normal business,” he said. “It does suggest someone or something else needs to take Twitter’s place as a political tool.”
Professor Wu urged the company to use discretion: “Twitter needs to be careful not to be in a position where it’s no longer helpful to a rebellion against oppressive governments. It needs to remain its old self in some circumstances.”
When Twitter Blocks… Continue reading: When Twitter Blocks Tweets, It’s #Outrage – NYTimes.com
On Twitter, nobody knows you’re a bot; also see Twitter Acquires Malware Protection Company
You might have encountered a "Twitter bot" before: an automated program that perhaps retweeted something you wrote because it had particular keywords. Or maybe you received a message from an unfamiliar, seemingly human-controlled account, only to click on an accompanying link and realize you’d been fooled by a spambot.
Now a group of freelance Web researchers has created more sophisticated Twitter bots, dubbed "socialbots," that can not only fool people into thinking they are real people, but also serve as virtual social connectors, speeding up the natural rate of human-to-human communication.
Twitter Bots Create Surprising… Continue reading: Twitter Bots Create Surprising New Social Connections – Technology Review
Excerpt from a useful overview of (and video about) Twitter’s new user experience model
Like many of the 100 million monthly active Twitter users, I tweet all the time, but I stopped doing it through Twitter’s own site, Twitter.com, ages ago. That’s because tons of desktop and mobile apps, such as TweetDeck and even Twitter for BlackBerry, are simply more feature-filled and easier to use.
Now Twitter has revamped its website, deconstructing its menus to be more approachable and easier to use, even for Twitter newbies. So I returned to the site and found three features that make a big difference. Meanwhile, two features I hoped would, by now, be available on… Continue reading: A Few New Reasons to Reunite With Twitter.com – Katherine Boehret – The Digital Solution – AllThingsD
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