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NowPublic *still* discriminates against microbloggers?
I am checking out NowPublic for the first time in almost a year, and I realized why I don't contribute to it: they discriminate against microbloggers/link journalists, they only deal in stories that are 100's of words long.Maybe *that's* why they went out of business,... Now Your Plant Can Use Twitter
If you thought people tweeting about what they had for breakfast was annoying, just wait until houseplants get in on the game. And they can indeed get in on the game, thanks to science. We're talking about a... Twitter Worm Threat Puts Social Media Security in the Spotlight
Twitter is THE microblogging site du jour and the soaring popularity of this social network makes it a prime target for hackers and other dubious web types hoping to make a name for themselves. After... Jaiku Goes Open Source
Jaiku, the presence-streaming service acquired by Google last year while still in beta and subsequently left on the back burner, is getting its code moved to open-source.This will likely spur development, if only...Twitter Coup: Tweeting Journalist Has Right to Report from Court
Twitter continues to change the world one tweet at a time. This time the microblogging service was at the center of a court challenge by defense attorneys that a journalist using Twitter to tweet live time updates of an ongoing court case was a violation of their...Six Apart Buys Pownce, Shuts it Down
Pownce gets pwned.The former micro-blogging rival to Twitter is being purchased — and shut down — by Six Apart.In light of Pownce's shutdown, it will be interesting to see what the future holds for other...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 48 wks ago | updated 48 wks ago
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An article Journalism.co.uk wrote about my using Twitter to document Hurrican...
"Mark Mayhew, who used microblogging service Twitter to update from New Orleans as Hurricane Gustav hit, is using a range of multimedia tools to document efforts to rebuild towns and cities affected by Gustav and...Qwitter catches Twitter quitters
Twitter, meet Qwitter, your other half. Twitter is your life in 140 characters or less, your way to tell the world what you are doing. Qwitter is the world’s way of telling you that sometimes people... Micro-Blogging Music Site Blip.fm Launches
Give the runaway success of micro-blogging sites like Twitter and the growing popularity of digital mixtape site, Muxtape, it was only a matter of time before someone created a niche-based micro-music blogging...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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326 views | 4 recommendations | 2 comments
Cyber Criminals Target Twitter
Cyber criminals are learning new tricks as the internet terrain changes. Social networking sites such as Twitter are being used as a tool for scams and prove to be another chink in the armor for trusting citizens... How Twitter can...
In a recent inquiry to dozens of online friends, I discovered one truth about Twitter. People either love it and use it daily (even hourly) or they absolutely hate it. Few people fit into the 'moderate feelings'... Twitter Gets $15M, Comes Clean on Tech Problems
Good for Twitter. It's one of the few web 2.0 success stories that, despite its ongoing downtime and wide-ranging technical glitches, outages, and problems, is still insatiably in demand by its fast-growing user...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Microblogs are world's first instant global mass media.
Microblogs are here to stay and the most important thing about microblogs is their immediate feedback information loop capabilities. Some microblogs worldwideThis list is a personal choice and based on three criteria: ease of operability, quality of service and experienced...Twitter down over there! No, literally.
Twitter might have gone fown for more than 37 hours in the first four months of 2008 -- working out to roughly 9 hours / month -- but even that can't seem to stop twitchy microblogging-junkies from twittering at...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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