Archive for twitter
Do you think Twitter is pointless? The tale of a convert
Andy Sawford, Chief Executive of the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU) has penned a brief account of his conversion from Twitter-sceptic to Twitter-fan: When I first started tweeting I wasn’t sure quite what to expect. At best it seemed a rather pointless exercise, at worst terribly self indulgent: who could possibly be interested in knowing [...]
Check who you've given rights to poke around your data
Prompted by a tweet from Owen Blacker (@owenblacker) about his Twitter settings, I’ve taken a look at what external applications I’ve let access my Twitter, Facebook and Flickr data. Put like that, this sounds like a boring techie configuration question, but it really amounts to, “Who’ve I given rights to poke around my personal data?” [...]
Finding journalists on Twitter
A follow-up to my post about Journalisted, which is a very handy website for finding details of journalists on major UK media outlets – what they’ve written about, how to contact them, their most recent stories and so on. Another handy website is Muck Rack, which provides a very helpfully laid out directory of journalists on [...]
Why the new Twitter homepage doesn't work for me
The new-look home page for Twitter.com has generally had pretty good reactions so far and at first I quite liked it too. But on reflection, it looks to me to be a move in the wrong direction. Why? Twitter search Well, most importantly it has a general Twitter search box as the most prominent item [...]
Japan adds Twitter to the list of internet services banned in elections
Last year I blogged about the unusual attitude towards the internet in Japan:
It’s been a democracy for over 50 years.
60% of its population has access to high speed broadband.
More blogs are written in its native language than in any other language.
And the country is … Japan, where: “Once an official campaign has started, candidates are [...]
United Airlines update: airline responds, Dave Carroll replies
Whilst the number of views for Dave Carroll’s protest song about United Airlines breaking his guitar continues to soar (up by around 700,000 in the last 24 hours), United Airlines has responded with a pun-tastic statement that the situation has “struck a chord” with them. In return, Dave Carroll has recorded a response: Apart from [...]
Habitat and Twitter: what are the lessons to learn?
Cross-posted from the Mandate blog: Habitat’s been in the news, in a bad way, for its recent foray into the world of Twitter. Although it’s a firm with a solid reputation for its service and its goods, that hasn’t transferred over to its tweeting. Instead, Habitat has been widely condemned – and apologised – for [...]
Canadian police told to get twittering
From The Ottawa Citizen: Aiming to do a better job of informing the public and city officials than they did during the Tamil protests that jammed downtown in April, Ottawa’s police are planning to experiment with Twitter and other social media to get word of major incidents out more quickly… Twitter and other social media [...]
Daily Mail poll feels the heat of 1,500+ tweets
The Daily Mail website was running an online poll with the very Daily Mail question, “Should the NHS allow gipsies to jump the queue?” In what looks like a striking display of social media’s power, lots of messages sprung up on Twitter urging people to vote in the poll. A quick search I did on [...]
