January 30, 2013
“The Monster at the End of This Twitter Conversation”: An adorable bit of social media fun by @sesamestreet.

“The Monster at the End of This Twitter Conversation”: An adorable bit of social media fun by @sesamestreet.

2:43pm
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Filed under: Sesame Street Twitter Grover 
December 6, 2012
"My diagnosis is simple, Roger: your friends and associates are terrible and boring. Being that you are a smart and interesting guy who would distill only the finest information from any social network, the problem is the garbage going into your feed, which can only come out as garbage in your column. And that garbage is being created by the people who you choose to follow and know."

— Alexis Madrigal responds to social media haters in the New York Times.

3:37pm
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Filed under: Social Media Facebook Twitter Technology 
November 8, 2012
laughingsquid: Map: How New York Tweeted During Hurricane Sandy

laughingsquid:

Map: How New York Tweeted During Hurricane Sandy

10:57am
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Filed under: Hurricane Sandy Weather Twitter Social Media Climate Change 
November 7, 2012
Barack Obama Now Has the Most Popular Tweet of All Time

12:24am
(Notes: 261)
  
Filed under: Election 2012 Politics News Twitter Social Media Obama 
November 6, 2012
Mary Cheney Sent This Photo of Dick Cheney Watching the Returns [Image: @joehagansays]

Mary Cheney Sent This Photo of Dick Cheney Watching the Returns

[Image: @joehagansays]

8:34pm
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Filed under: Cheney Politics Twitter Photography 
September 12, 2012
Medical Case Study: What Happens When You Live-Tweet an Acid Trip?

LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is a hallucinogen, meaning its primary action is alteration of perception, mood, and thought.

The vast majority of hallucinogen-related hospitalizations aren’t the result of direct physiologic effects, but from injuries related impaired judgement. For those who insist on experimenting with acid, at least do so in a supportive, private environment.

With release of dopamine and seratonin, many report senses of euphoria and existential ambition.

Read more.

3:30pm
(Notes: 357)
  
Filed under: Twitter Funny LOL Drugs LSD Acid 
September 6, 2012
How the Convention Speeches Played on Twitter The line in yellow on the chart above shows the number of tweets per minute about the Democratic convention during Wednesday night’s session featuring Bill Clinton. In red, tweets per minute on the equivalent night of the Republican convention last week, featuring vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan. Clinton’s Twitter traffic peaked at over 22,000 when he finished speaking and President Obama joined him at the podium. Ryan’s speech, by contrast, barely topped 5,000 at its highest point. Read more.

How the Convention Speeches Played on Twitter

The line in yellow on the chart above shows the number of tweets per minute about the Democratic convention during Wednesday night’s session featuring Bill Clinton. In red, tweets per minute on the equivalent night of the Republican convention last week, featuring vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan. Clinton’s Twitter traffic peaked at over 22,000 when he finished speaking and President Obama joined him at the podium. Ryan’s speech, by contrast, barely topped 5,000 at its highest point.

Read more.

2:40pm
(Notes: 220)
  
Filed under: Politics Election 2012 Twitter Bill Clinton Paul Ryan 
August 15, 2012
The World Cities That Tweet the Most The study, released by Paris-based Semiocast, tracked the number of tweets with location info in the month of June, 2012. New York is the top U.S. city for tweets, outranking Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, and Houston. San Francisco, the city that the social media company calls home, doesn’t make an appearance in the top 20.  Read more. [Image: Semiocast]

The World Cities That Tweet the Most

The study, released by Paris-based Semiocast, tracked the number of tweets with location info in the month of June, 2012. New York is the top U.S. city for tweets, outranking Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, and Houston. San Francisco, the city that the social media company calls home, doesn’t make an appearance in the top 20. 

Read more. [Image: Semiocast]

12:06pm
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Filed under: Social Media Twitter News Chart 
July 31, 2012

The Statistical Probability That Mitt Romney’s Twitter Popularity Is Genuine: 0%

Last week Zach Green of 140Elect, noticed some strange goings-on with Mitt Romney’s Twitter account (@MittRomney). Romney’s account, which had been averaging around 2,000 to 5,000 new followers a day, gained 141,000 followers in two days. […]

We developed a simple methodology for testing whether a set of followers is likely to be the product of natural user following behavior or bot networks. This test revealed a significant difference between the distribution of followers among the accounts in Mitt Romney’s recent spike and that of similar users in our comparison. It strongly indicates that non-organic processes induced Romney’s recent surge in followers. We did not find a similar pattern in Barack Obama’s recent followers.

Read more. [Images: Reuters, Twitter Counter]

12:05pm
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Filed under: News Politics Romney Twitter Statistics Social media Obama 
July 26, 2012
The 17th-Century Paper Social Network  Is this a 17th-century Twitter? Maybe. (Even before this scrap came to light, the promotional material for the play Brief Lives called Aubrey “the world’s oldest blogger.”) The scrap both does and doesn’t mirror a tweet — or a status update, or a Tumblr post, or anything on any social network. It has structural limits. It’s odd, jotted, and hasty. It brimming with scribbled social information, meaningful only to those steeped in its world. Read more. [Image: Bodleian Library]

The 17th-Century Paper Social Network 

Is this a 17th-century Twitter? Maybe. (Even before this scrap came to light, the promotional material for the play Brief Lives called Aubrey “the world’s oldest blogger.”) The scrap both does and doesn’t mirror a tweet — or a status update, or a Tumblr post, or anything on any social network. It has structural limits. It’s odd, jotted, and hasty. It brimming with scribbled social information, meaningful only to those steeped in its world.

Read more. [Image: Bodleian Library]

11:36am
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Filed under: Social network Twitter 17th century Paper 
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