New Media
The First Ever Official Twitter-Fight Just Happened
“I don’t think anybody out there in the media, UN, human rights organisations, has any moral right whatsoever to level any accusations against me or against Rwanda” Is this an example of rhetoric 2.0 that we’ll be witnessing in the future? Or will this serve as further deterrent to all public figures out there to — despite bowing to social media pressures to “be public” and engaged — should “stay put” and not engage in confrontations Will we — with the U.S. 2012 presidential elections — witness unprecedented volumes of conversations and tweet-fights? I am pretty sure that the future promises to be very fun on socio-planet. What’s the craziest Twitter sparing you can imagine, featuring political figures among themselves, with journalists, supporters or constituents?
New on Twitter: 1,000,000 Words in 140 Characters
Today, Twitter unveiled its long awaited photo and video sharing, not only leaving the likes of Twitpic, Yfrog and Twitvid in the dust… with a twist: pushing hashtags. In watching the official unveiling video below, Twitter is smartly appealing to users’ love-hate relationship with the ubiquitous 140 characters limit: too limiting to ramble but fantastic to consume and digest.
IPhone 4 & 3GS Unlock: The Cat & Mouse Game Code Named: 02.10.04 – 05.14.02
It is rather insane the way in which twiterers are rehashing over and over the same questions about the availablility of the unlock for the now infamous iPhone basebands 05.14.02 and 02.10.04.
How To Get Addicted To Twitter — INFOGRAPHIC
Any story culminating in a group hug is always great. The path to Twitter ‘addiction’ is one of those stories.
Is Twitter Stuck In Mental Masturbation Mode?
The “talkative” 20% just needs to get their heads out of their bubble, look around and find a better way to engage non-peers in participating (it can be intimidating y’all!); i.e. potential customers. 180 million unique visitors come to the site every month and new users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day or over 3 per second.
Sow Well Today and You Will Reap Tomorrow
This quick story I received by email from a very dear person, reminded me of the base spirit needed to succeeding in social media. It relates to a previous post titled: “Is Twitter Stuck Into Mental Masturbation Mode?”
Spending Too Much Time on Facebook? Get Stalking!
How likely would you be to start stalking your Facebook friends if it were to save you time and allow for a more meaningful experience on the social network? So Facebook is twiterizing… again. Mashable and AllFacebook are both calling it “HUGE”. Although the new feature offers some interesting engagement opportunities, it’s actually not that [...]
Why Influence is Bliss but Not Popularity
Both Brian Solis‘ statements are very true but what is this rarity really? ‘Influence’ is one of, if not THE holy grail of social media. In plain English, social influence: it is the ability for a brand to make people do things they want them to do through using social tools. It is defined in the same [...]
MTV, The Twitopularity Rise & The 2012 Elections [VIDEO]
Not a TV buff by any stretch of the imagination to begin with, I usually shun the MTV awards type events but the social experiment underlined by the Twitter firehose that MTV put up was well worth watching as it may much farther reaching implications than promoting simple music videos. MTV’s spokesman Kurk Patat said [...]
Twitter Accused of Censorship, Does it Need Circuit Breakers?
In the wake of Israel raiding ships carrying aid en route for Gaza, sparking furor on Twitter, something strange happened on the micro-blogging site that stirred a lot of reactions. The hashtag, a way to categorize information on Twitter, pertaining to the raid was #flotilla. It somehow disappeared from Twitter trends for a while before [...]
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