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. .
Journalism
Twitterâs UK in-house journalism expert and friend of the blog Joanna Geary [https://twitter.com/JoannaUK] has crowd-sourced a great list of 30 Twitter tools that are useful for journalists: Useful 3rd-Party Tools [https://twitter.com/JoannaUK/timelines/491934107853938688] Some are familiar and essential, but some are brand new
legal reporting
Liveblogging so be warned: typos, inaccuracies and vile, vile abuse of grammar and syntax ahead. Peter Jukes: Livetweeting the Phone Hacking Trial [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/peter-jukes-3638.html] Peter is better known as a dramatist, but has always been interested in technology and journalism. Heâ
online video
I read this [http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/vine-is-creating-a-new-breed-of-internet-superstar] : > This kerfuffle at the SmĂĄralind shopping centre near ReykjavĂk, Iceland, last weekend isnât because One Direction are in town. Itâs because of two stars from Vine, the six-second video-blogging site. Then I did this: Vine has been through
content strategy
My Top Tweets of 2013 [https://twitter.com/adders/timelines/418152823969177600] What can we learn from this? 1. Mocking social media gurus is really popular 2. Humour generally goes a long way 3. People like shared pain â like the treatment of freelancers 4. Liveblogging and exclusive interviews still carry value.
business
Allegedly Gary Vaynerchuk [http://www.garyvaynerchuk.com] hadnât slept for two days before his talk at LeWeb. I well believe it given how rambling it was. This isnât a conventional chronological liveblog, as Iâve tried to gather together his thoughts into subject groups⌠Go deep not wide
entrepreneurship
Liveblog of Guy Kawasaki [http://www.guykawasaki.com] talking on stage at LeWeb 10. A few years ago people were predicting that MySpace would be the operating system of the internet. Now Facebook is close to that. Would you really have invested in Twitter 7 years ago? Predicting the future
Twitter drives a tenth of the traffic that Facebook does to news sites. So why are journalists so obsessed with Twitter [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/11/why-do-journalists-prefer-twitter-to-facebook/] ? Well, thereâs a good reason: > The reason, I think, is that Twitter is simply more useful
aggregation
Twitter launches custom timelines [https://dev.twitter.com/blog/introducing-custom-timelines]: > Custom timelines are an entirely new type of timeline â one that you create. You name it, and choose the Tweets you want to add to it, either by hand or programmatically using the API (more on that below). This
Buzzfeed
It might be a good time to start culling the politicians you follow on Twitter. Buzzfeedâs Jim Waterson explains why Labour spammed its followersâ Twitter feeds [http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/labour-have-found-a-new-way-of-spamming-everyone] : > Itâs an attempt to recreate blanket broadcast-style coverage on Twitter. And if 4.5m people
event amplification
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/10/10258650884_5753ba04ec_z.jpg] Mashable reports on a complete abuse of New York Comic Con attendeesâ Twitter accounts [http://mashable.com/2013/10/11/new-york-comic-con-promotional-tweets/] : > Fans, celebrities and press attending New York Comic Con on Thursday sent out
X (Twitter)
I think he begrudges me the username âaddersâ in so many placesâŚ
event amplification
A quick guide to the best live tweeting from events.