The Social Media Guru Bubble
I’ve come to loathe most “Social Media Experts”. Not all of them, of course, there are good ones out there, but they can be hard to find in an endless sea of “10 Ironclad Str...
Tag Archives: Twitter
Crowdsourcing ‘Justice’ in the Boston Bombing Case
In the hunt for the Boston Marathon suspects social media played a large part. Live footage, Tweeted news and crowdsourced leads became all the rage. As even Boston Police used Twitter to communicate...
Google+, Twitter, & Facebook: 3 Visions of Social Search
Will Google+ kill Facebook? Will Facebook kill Twitter? Will Twitter kill them both? The tech media is very interested in this topic. The answer is no. It won’t happen. Not because they don’t os...
Twitter Celebrates its 7th Birthday
March 22, 2013- Tweet and re-tweet, two words which literally didn’t exist a little more than seven years ago, are now part of the global lexicon, used by people everywhere. The origin of the website...
Twitter Ordered to Identify Racist Users
January 26, 2013- In a landmark ruling, a French court has ordered the social media giant, Twitter, to hand over details of the users who posted racist and anti-Semitic content. Twitter has refused s...
Pope Gets 370,000 Twitter Followers in 24 Hours
December 4, 2012- Pope Benedict, religious leader for more than one billion Roman Catholics worldwide, has a new Twitter Account. It began earlier today and the Pope’s handle is @pontifex. His new fo...
