PostPost, a powerful, noise-reducing search tool for Twitter, has pushed out some updates that make it even more useful.
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In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day.
At the agency’s Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the “vengeful librarians” also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms — anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to openly.
At the agency’s Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the “vengeful librarians” also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms — anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to openly.
Well, let’s take, say, Twitter,” he said. “It requires a very brief, concise form of thought and so on that tends toward superficiality and draws people away from real serious communication […] It is not a medium of a serious interchange.
7 Cool Chrome Extensions for Twitter
We all know Chrome is fast, but can it also be social? We’ve already brought you a list of social media extensions for Google’s Chrome browser, but…
The Real Life Social Network v2 View more documents from Paul Adams.
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Drawing a huge following on Twitter does not necessarily mean that your tweets will have much influence. It turns out that some noncelebrities with meager followings have the greatest ability to start discussions and spread ideas.
According to a group of researchers at Korea’s Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Twitter is not a very social network. After analyzing over 41 million user profiles and 1.47 billion follower/following relationships, the researchers concluded that only 22% of all connections on Twitter are reciprocal.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Being Played Out Live On Twitter And Foursquare. Awesome.
~ If you landed here from Twitter looking for this link, my apologies for the bad link and Tumblr routing, a little autopost mistweeting snafu. Enjoy the Bueller, Bueller, Bueller fun…
students were asked to give up all media for 24 hours, including text messages, TV shows, music, e-mail, and Facebook, and to do so on all sources, including cell phones. Some of the students equated the stipulation to being entirely socially closed off from friends and family.
College students struggle to go without media for 24 hours
~ Reaffirms what I found in my dissertation research…where some students had difficulty even conceiving of what it would be to go with media for an extended period of time. -note to self… *publish*
