Archive for the ‘Twitter’ Category

Why @NicolasSarkozy should either scold Twitter for their actions or leave the site himself #NS2012

Yesterday by JD Rucker | add comment

Four Twitter accounts critical of French President Nicolas Sarkozy were suspended yesterday, just a week after the many started his own account to help with his re-election efforts. The accounts, satirical in nature based upon their Tweets, were allegedly reported by Sarkozy or someone acting on his authority according more »

Pinterest may be changing the social commerce game, but why?

Feb 13 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

Pinterest is starting to enter into the social media in ways that most sites only dream about. Other than Google+, it’s the fastest growing social site in the last year with 329% growth in the last 4 months of 2011 alone. We get more questions on our social media podcast about Pinterest the last month more »

Twitter and Facebook may be more addictive than alcohol or cigarettes

Feb 8 by Scarlett Madison | 4 comments

Has Western culture grown too attached to their social networks? It’s possible, according to a recent study led by Wilhelm Hofmann at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. While the nuts and bolts of the study were far from a compelling, comprehensive bit of scientific research (205 adults were more »

Not Rated Shoes: Taking on the juggernauts through social media

Jan 30 by Scarlett Madison | 2 comments

In a great economy, it’s hard to start a retail company and get attention in industries where the major players have already hit the field. Things are rebounding around the country to some extent but it’s definitely not what most would consider to be “great.” That isn’t stopping one Southern California more »

What Twitter's horrific recruitment video says about the state of Silicon Valley

Jan 30 by Lorie Wimble | 2 comments

As much as it deserves a tirade about professional recruiting, brand positioning, and using human relations as a public relations tool, the video that Twitter released recently as a recruitment tool will do one thing very well. It will work. Forget the fact that it was intentionally, professionally more »

Taliban on Twitter: How congressional attempts to block them is asinine on 2 levels

Dec 25 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

Twitter is used by different people for different things. It’s a communication tool for some, a news aggregator for others, and a way to spread a message for individuals and groups around the world. From the perspective of the US government, it can be a beacon of freedom as well as a source of international more »

Social Media 2011: The bullseyes and blunders that dominated chatter

Dec 25 by JD Rucker | 2 comments

In the past, the best way to review the year was to look back through newspaper headlines and pick out the stories that were thought to be the biggest. It wasn’t an exact science and required intuition and subjective reasoning to decide what was most important to the people that year. Today, social more »

CNN's #COP17 Ecosphere Project displays an amazing visualization, but to what end?

Dec 5 by Connor Livingston | 1 comment

Stunning. Intuitive. Brilliant. Worthless? The first three words in the series can clearly be used to describe the CNN #COP17 Ecosphere Project, a real-time visualization of the climate change discuss that led up to the UN Climate Change Conference 2011 being held now in Durban, South Africa. The fourth word in the series more »

The US government failed to uphold its own principles by unlocking WikiLeaks-related Twitter accounts

Nov 13 by Connor Livingston | 3 comments

The precedent has been set and it’s a very bad one. A US judge ruled that Twitter must release all of the details of Birgitta Jonsdottir’s account, as well as two others. Their links to WikiLeaks has put them under the scrutiny of the Justice Department after last year’s video of US helicopters shooting two Reuters reporters in Iraq. Speculation is that Jonsdottir more »

Why @klout made a big mistake with their algorithm change

Oct 29 by JD Rucker | 2 comments

One aspect of social media that is widely understood but rarely discussed is the ego-boost through empowerment that it allows. In most cases, the “empowerment” is perceived more highly than the reality, but it’s present for many of those who have never had a public voice but who now can use social more »

Twitter closes deal to get "Tweet" trademark

Oct 11 by Scarlett Madison | 1 comment

They made the mistake in the beginning by not slapping a Trademark on the word that has become synonymous with the posting on their site. Now, Twitter will finally have the rights to the word, “Tweet”. James Eliason, CEO of Twittad, announced in an interview that he would transfer the registered more »

Twitter denies blocking #OccupyWallStreet from trending

Oct 7 by Connor Livingston | 1 comment

When Justin Bieber stopped trending on Twitter, fans were up in arms. The #occupywallstreet hashtag has never trended and the protesters are starting to take notice, even loosely starting an #occupytwitter hashtag. Much of the claims stem from investment; JP Morgan Chase, one of the targets more »

Twitter's most asked celebrity: Justin Bieber

Sep 29 by Connor Livingston | 2 comments

If you use Twitter regularly, there’s a good chance that you’ve seen something about Justin Bieber in your Twitter stream. Even if you’re not friends with any of the masses of teen girls who worship the young pop star, his name is mentioned more than just about anyone. What does it say about Twitter? more »

A quirky look at social networks: "If they were your neighbors"

Sep 25 by Scarlett Madison | add comment

Let’s look at the lighter side of social media. With so many privacy concerns rolling around, turmoil around the world fueled in many ways by social media, and general shenanigans dominating status updates, we want to lighten things up a bit and have a chuckle or two. What would happen if social media sites were actually your neighbors? That’s more »