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#ArsenalLive: Arsenal ‘takes over’ Twitter, again
#ArsenalLive is back. It seems the football team so enjoyed the attention it got from the first Twitter takeover that it decided to do another one. Hear hear. As before, players take the "hot seat" and fans pose questions. Each player has five minutes to answer the selected questions. Good luck with that boys."We'll be at the training ground to catch up with some of the first-team squad and we want you to put YOUR questions to them via ...What are the limits of free speech on Twitter?
Caution: not for sensitive readers. What are the limits to free speech on Twitter? Is the “report spam” function enough? Should trolls be censured?In the UK, racist trolling will get you arrested and jailed, as student Liam Stacey discovered recently after tweeting racist comments about footballer Fabrice Muamba and then referring to people who complained as “wogs”. Stacey was jailed for 56 days after being prosecuted under the Racially Aggravated s4A Public order Act 1986.He initially claimed his account had been ...Is tweeting profitable?
The Next Web reportedly recently paid Paris Hilton US$3 000 for a sponsored tweet and while sponsored tweets are nothing new, we've got to wonder how profitable Twitter is both for itself and its users.Barack Obama has often used Twitter to broadcast his feelings on certain topics like tax (#40dollars) and the debt-ceiling (#Compromise) and, as a result, has also used it to drum up support for his re-election in 2012 -- so it clearly has a role to ...‘Pull to refresh’ — Yep, Twitter is patenting that
No? Seriously? I was just reading Sarah Perez's latest column over at TechCrunch and it seems Twitter wants to patent "pull to refresh". You know that thing your official Twitter client does when you need to refresh your feed? Yep, Twitter is getting a lock down on that.I never really noticed that you couldn't do it with other apps, especially core iOS or Android ones. As Perez points out, however, none of these companies can actually implement this while ...4 Reasons someone should get Helen Zille away from Twitter
Last year I wrote a piece for Memeburn about ways I felt Helen Zille was using Twitter well. She was controversial even back then, but I liked her for four reasons:She was responsive
She was unscripted
She was active and
She had a sense of humourOverall, I loved the fact that she was both accessible and real. No PR gloss: you got Helen pretty much undiluted. I didn’t mind the sarcasm; somehow it lent her a certain appealing authenticity. A ...Twitter time machine: What the first 30 tweets looked like
A little over six years ago, an idea that started out on a scrap of exam pad became reality. Twitter was born, its creators probably unaware that earth changing events would soon come to us in 140 character-sized chunks.In fact, judging by the messages Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and company sent out, they had absolutely no idea. If you saw their tweets today, you’d probably judge them for being so banal. The only one to show any ...#ArsenalLive: Arsenal players talk to fans on Twitter
In what could be a very cool trend for football teams around the world, English professional football club Arsenal F.C held a question and answer session on Twitter.The football club gathered some of its top players to answer questions posed by fans in what it calls a "live Twitter takeover". Takeover seems about right given that hashtag in use #ArsenalLive was the top trending topic on Twitter.Each player, whose identity was kept a secret until the moment they ...Twitter acquires Posterous
Popular blogging platform Posterous has been acquired by Twitter. Posterous announced on Monday that it has been acquired, but that Posterous Spaces will remain up and running without disruption and that users will receive ample notice should there be any changes to its service offering.Alluding to possible upcoming changes, Posterous said in its blog post that it would share instructions on how users can back up their content and export data to alternative services like Wordpress, Tumblr and Blogger in ...Buy your theatre ‘tweet seats’ today. Really?
I saw this tweet asking whether or not people would welcome the concept of tweet seats and subsequently read the article it pointed to. Naturally, I had to investigate further.
Would you welcome 'tweet seats' in theatres? | Poll keruff.it/zhj0lH | Guardian— Technology (@keruff_tech) March 6, 2012
Have we really reached this place in our social media evolution? Is this direction we want it to go? I am rather hesitant, but it appears to be a growing trend within the United States.Live ...Social media, iPhones and the death of photojournalism [Infographic]
Aah, citizen journalism and social media... the trends that have professional photojournalists clutching their Nikons in fear. Well, kinda.The power of social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to spread news, share photos, and videos of events and organise protest actions (most notably during the Arab Spring) is well documented. Technological convergence has resulted in a device which can tweet, share, film videos, capture images and sound, send messages and communicate news in real time (this magical device is that ...
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