An unprecedented analysis reveals that the micro-blogging service is remarkably effective at spreading “important” information.
Sency was created to help you easily navigate the real time web. At any time, we allow you to see what is going on right now with any person, place, or subject matter. Anyone can use Sency - even…
“Up your tweets, kids! The U.S. Library of Congress is archiving every single character posted on Twitter since it first launched in March 2006. If you want yours to stand out between…
Early on the afternoon of April 1, Adam Wilson posted a message to Twitter. But instead of using his hands to type, the University of Wisconsin biomedical engineer used his brain. “USING EEG TO SEND…
The fact that NPR is now the only major media outlet that is increasing its foreign reporting in response to surveys indicating listeners are interested in foreign news reinforces what we already…
We recently got the chance to play with Twitter’s brand new @anywhere service. Here are a couple of prototypes we made
Starting today, you can zoom to any point in time and “replay” what people were saying publicly about a topic on Twitter. To try it out, click “Show options” on the search results page, then select…
In a move that may raise the ire of Twitter users, the articles also state that Twitter plans to eventually put ads into your Twitter stream:
In the next phase of Twitter’s revenue plan, it will…
“To put these into perspective, these newspaper sites get around 2 million unique users a day, so 0.5% is 10,000 visitors a day. While not to be sneezed at, it shows that search, news aggregators and…
“I wasn’t convinced about Twitter at first, but it quickly turned out to be quite useful for investigating”, says Paul Lewis. “Twitter is not just a website and not micro-blogging, it is an entirely…
There are about 100 Sky News employees currently on Twitter, including news editors, field producers and online staff. Some of them already have TweetDeck or are using other Twitter apps on their…
Williams says that @Anywhere taps into Twitter’s deepest values of openness and transparency. “A window is transparent, but a door is open,” he said. “A door lets people come in and mess with what…
For example, journalists are advised to get manager approval before using Twitter for professional purposes, have someone double-check their tweets before posting, avoid disclosing personal biases…
Where I talk about how I reported from the field one day in Rwanda using a few compact devices, old and new. And a pay-as-you-go SIM.
