Earlier today a 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit Los Angeles. (Read about it on CNN.) As soon as I heard, I went to Twitter Search to see what people were saying about it.
A massive number of tweets have been published about the earthquake, and I'm so late to look that even though ...
Ars Technica has an interesting look on the current state of social media use in Congress, and how new policies put many Congress members in violation of Senate rules.
Ars Technica writes:
A political spat erupted in Washington, D.C., earlier this month over rules governing how members of Congress may use the ...
Someone tell me. I'm guessing Facebook started it.
Web design often differs between global cultures, but blue appears to represent social media on websites prominent in the U.S., Europe, South America, and Asia. Interestingly, when blue is not used prominently, a black/red motif seems popular. (YouTube, MetroFLOG, Netlog, Bebo, Tagged, Media ...
I use Google Alerts to stay on top of my company's image in the news and blogosphere. I automatically recieve an e-mail every time something new pops up, so rarely do I have to navigate to a search page and look for myself. Using Google Reader, I also use an ...
Just days after I wrote about techniques for finding information on Twitter, including Summize, a Twitter-specific search engine, the two have become one. The Twitter blog reports their micro-blogging service has acquired the popular search tool. This means that Summize is now available at search.twitter.com, and in the near future, a search ...
I read this Boston Globe article about customer complaints in social media, and one story caught my attention:
When C.C. Chapman noticed a blemish in his high-definition television's reception during the NBA playoffs recently, he blasted a quick gripe about Comcast into the online ether, using the social network Twitter.
Minutes later, ...
Compete reports that Plurk, a new micro-blogging site and competition for Twitter, saw a 929% increase in traffic in June, probably due to all the downtime Twitter users have experienced in the past month.
I figured I should try out Plurk, but when I first went to the site, it was down. ...
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I've compiled a large list of popular social networks in the U.S. and around the world, and using the most recent Alexa rankings, I've made a list of the most popular social networks here and abroad.
"Global rank" and "U.S. rank" represent web traffic compared to every ...
...is being more difficult than it should.
Last night I added my Twitter "tweet" (feed) to the right side of this page. Integrates well, but the problem is the javascript code can only handle one user. (Ideally I'd add other people's tweets underneath, but currently that seems impossible.) It also seems like ...
