Tag Archives: Twitter
To the BBC and others: Twitter is not your competition
Just a day after Sky News told its journalists they should not post any kind of breaking news to Twitter — and also blocked them from retweeting anyone but an official Sky News account — the BBC has released a … Continue reading
Forget the People’s Choice Awards, we’ve got Twitter
Who needs an awards show to tell us what movies and actors fans prefer when we have Twitter? In yet another partnership with the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, IBM is turning its skills in social-media sentiment analysis to Hollywood awards … Continue reading
Super Bowl XLVI by the (Twitter) numbers
Twitter is fast becoming the focus group of the 21st century, a status solidified yet again during Sunday night’s Super Bowl. The platform saw 453 times the maximum tweets per second it saw during 2008′s game, and sentiment analysis of tweets … Continue reading
One studio accounts for 1/3 of Twitter DMCA takedowns
According to recently released statistics, a single studio, Magnolia Pictures, accounts for a whole one third of all DMCA takedown requests on Twitter, more than Universal Music and Sony combined. Read more… Neowin.net
Twitter begins larger rollout of enhanced brand pages
Screenshot of Volkswagen's enhanced Twitter page (click to enlarge) On Wednesday, Twitter switched on enhanced brand pages for accounts owned by National Public Radio, NBC News, Volkswagen, the Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, and Anobii, among others. This is the first batch … Continue reading