Insight about X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The former news social media mainstay once described as "microblogging", and now better known as "that hell site", is in the midst of some dramatic changes. .
buzzwords
Johnston Press has clearly mastered the art of buzzwording [https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/6-opportunities-for-publishers-on-social-media-from-johnston-press/s2/a564844/] more than it has the art of social media: > âTwitter users are much more engaged with news brands,â he said, so the networkâs place in Johnston Pressâ social strategy is
cropping
A handy guide to getting image cropping right for social media [http://alisongow.com/2015/03/09/off-with-their-heads-crimes-against-cropping-in-tweets/] â with links to tools: > The thing is, even when it looks normal in the tweet, the preview (these examples are from Twitter and Tweetdeck) often doesnât. I learned bitter lessons
data protection
Interesting shift from Twitter [https://support.twitter.com/articles/20172527]: > If you live outside the United States, our services are now provided to you by Twitter International Company, our company based in Dublin, Ireland. Twitter International Company will be responsible for handling your account information under Irish privacy and
community management
Talking of services with two tiers of users, Twitter is making life nicer for its elite âverifiedâ users: > Quality filter allows verified users to hide tweets in notifications containing threats, offensive or abusive language, duplicate content or that are sent from suspicious accounts, similar to the old âfilteredâ option
group messaging
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/01/twitter-group-messages.png] A big â but expected â announcement from Twitter today. Group messaging is here: 30 seconds of Twitter video Possibly more interesting from a journalistic point of view is the fact that theyâre adding video natively into Twitter
culture
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/12/matthias-lufkens.jpg] Liveblogged notes from Matthias LĂźfkensâ talk at LeWeb 2014 There are now hundreds of accounts of political leaders and foreign ministers on Twitter. Very few world leaders actually do the tweeting themselves. Those that do are normally
> âTwitter is our competition, we have faced up to that reality,â said Matt McAllester, Europe editor at Time. Thatâs a controversial start to a nice piece from Abigail at journalism.co.uk, from a Web Summit panel on journalism and social media [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/
Journalists
Twitterâs head of news Vivian Schiller is stepping down [http://recode.net/2014/10/08/twitter-news-head-vivian-schiller-out/]: > Vivian Schiller, the high-profile NBC and NPR exec whom Twitter hired to run its news unit, is leaving the company as part of a consolidation. Adam Sharp will now be in charge
In Clay Shirkyâs seminal book on the effects of the internet on our culture Here Comes Everybody [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002RI9XJW/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B002RI9XJW&linkCode=as2&tag=omhb-21&linkId=66AXE5L24GC4SZWU]
clickbait
Really nice Twitter graphic from the FT communities team. A good âteaseâ of the clickthrough: > Love this quote from @JananGanesh [https://twitter.com/JananGanesh] on the desperate attempts to keep Scotland from voting Yes http://t.co/XowUeoZ3Kt pic.twitter.com/ITkW05WxSK [http://t.co/ITkW05WxSK] â Esther Bintliff (@estherbintliff)
elite
Twitter [https://blog.twitter.com/2014/new-features-for-verified-users]: > Similar to how we help businesses make advertising simple and effective on Twitter, we occasionally build features that enable these public figures â verified users â to engage more easily with the world through Twitter. Interesting to see Twitter developing an effective Elite, with
Brilliant Noise
Five recent reads you might have missed, and are well-worth your time: Itâs a 24/7 social media world out there Friends of the blog Brilliant Noise have done some research into the difference between âalways onâ Twitter presence and more sporadic approaches: Always-on is a more strategic and