May 2010
1 post
Technology Review: Blogs: Guest Blog: Why Twitter... →
An unprecedented analysis reveals that the micro-blogging service is remarkably effective at spreading “important” information.
April 2010
7 posts
Sency - About Us →
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…
Historic tweets heard round the world - Technotica... →
“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…
Twitter Telepathy: Researchers Turn Thoughts Into... →
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…
Is the Foreign News Bureau Part of the Past? -... →
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…
@anywhere prototypes from the Guardian | The... →
We recently got the chance to play with Twitter’s brand new @anywhere service. Here are a couple of prototypes we made
Official Google Blog: Replay it: Google search... →
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…
Full Details On Twitter’s Long-Awaited Ad... →
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…
March 2010
7 posts
How much traffic Twitter drives to UK newspaper... →
“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…
21st Century Councillor | Using Social Media: A... →
How investigative reporting makes use of the... →
“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…
TweetDeck Newsroom Rollout Continues at Sky News →
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…
Twitter CEO unveils '@Anywhere' platform | The... →
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…
Reuters to Journalists: Don’t Break News on... →
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…
BBC College of Journalism - Blog - The right kit... →
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.
February 2010
1 post
BBC World Service - World Agenda - New media vital... →
The Twitter community in fact provided much of the early information on the crisis in the existence of what the Columbia Journalism Review called “the Haitian news vacuum”. The Los Angeles Times…
January 2010
18 posts
Call direct from Twitter with Phweet | Janet Fouts →
I use Twitter a lot and it generally works just fine for short conversations, sending links etc, but sometimes I want to just pick up the phone and call the person to talk about something a little…
Twitter's human touch amid the horror of Haiti -... →
Oxfam is also using the audio blogging site ipadio to deliver radio-style reports from its correspondent Louis Belanger, who is en route to Haiti to help assess the damage caused by the earthquake,…
The Hourly Press →
The Hourly Press is an example of an authoritative social filter. It shares some attributes with open social systems like Digg and others with formal organizations like newspaper editorial boards. It…
TweetMeme - Search and Retweet the Hottest Stories... →
Popular topics and news from the Twitter public... →
Stream Live Video on Twitter from twitcam- powered... →
In a pinch, Twitter found a long shot source | By... →
When you’re the only reporter in the newsroom on a Sunday night, you have to be ready to write any kind of story — even if you have no prior sourcing on it whatsoever. I know how to reach the police…
Retweet.com | News for the People, by the People! →
Twitturls - Popular Twitter Links Tweeted err... →
Today’s most tweeted links. This list is refactored every minute.
Twitter: News Publishers Want Money From Tweets -... →
Paid-tweet purveyor Ad.ly, the 4-month-old Los Angeles startup, has pitched its services for the most obvious approach, inserting paid tweets among news tweets. So far the big takers are individuals…
New tools for Sky journalists as social media... →
Sky News is installing Twitter software across its journalists’ computers, as part of plans to encourage more use of social media for newsgathering and reporting.
Hootsuite apps and pugins →
8 Tools to Help Filter Your Twitter Stream & Find... →
Eight sites that can help you filter the signal from the noise
MSNBC.com Buying BreakingNews.com Domain; Building... →
MSNBC.com is really getting serious about this whole breaking news thing: First it took over management of the @BreakingNews twitter feed from the company BNO News late last year, and now, it is…
flocking.me - search tweets from just your friends →
Search for tweets from just your friends
Why Twitter Should Worry about Seesmic’s... →
The road from here to there looks like this: 1) As Twitter, Facebook and other services mature, usage of these services migrate from the websites to the third party clients using their APIs. 2) The…
New Features: Time based grouping of media for... →
Have you ever wanted to say more on Twitter then a 140 characters or a few lines of text and a photo? We’ve introduced a new feature that will automatically group media from your Twitter uploads into…
Posterous: The Copy-and-Post Revolution in (Micro)... →
Overview of Posterous, how it works and the benefits.
December 2009
6 posts
BBC News - OMG. Did you just feel a quake? →
“Twitter provides a stream that dumps out the tweets continuously,” explained Michelle Guy, a software engineer working on the USGS project. “We put a filter on that stream, looking for key words…
semywhere →
SeeMyWhere shares your mobile phone’s location on a map and on Facebook. Start sharing your location now - it’s 100% free. Learn more here.
favit :: stream & share →
favit delivers your web stuff to one place in the web, where you can easily filter, share, discuss, rate and manage it.
The Twitter Avatar Roast: 10 Types of Profile... →
What your Twitter avatar says about you….
bit.ly blog - Sync bit.ly + Delicious + Twitter →
A few bit.ly users who also heavily use Delicious and Twitter have asked for an easier way to sync all these services. We recently came up with a pretty good way to automate this sync process using…
3 great options for Twitter and delicious... →
October 2009
13 posts
TwitPicGrid →
Bing Twitter →
An example of live Twitter search on Bing, looking for Rwanda
Twitter Multiple Users and Accounts | TweetFunnel →
The True 'Twitter Revolution' | Dart Center for... →
“Social media also helped spread false images of Neda, inflated protest tallies, and rumors; the multitude of non-Iranian Twitter users who changed their stated location to Tehran made parsing the…
Evan Williams on Twitter's vision for the future -... →
“We are in the middle of a series of experiments to try and figure out how to enable people to discover what they need to know without asking. Our whole goal is about telling people what is happening…
Kigali back wire →
The thinking behind Kigali Wire. I like the distribution process which I have pretty much nailed now - fast delivery across up 75+ networks. Next comes “community” building I started on @kigaliwire…
Kigali Wire Roughbook →
This is my roughbook for all thoughts and ideas behind the workings of kigaliwire.com
Comcast: Twitter Has Changed The Culture Of Our... →
“It has changed the culture of our company,” Roberts said. Comcast has for a while now been using Twitter to scan for complaints and engage with customers. The idea was not his, but rather rose…
Vidly →
Another “share videos on Twitter” thing to look at.
The Trafigura fiasco tears up the textbook →
It took one tweet on Monday evening as I left the office to light the virtual touchpaper. At five past nine I tapped: “Now Guardian prevented from reporting parliament for unreportable reasons. Did…