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. .
Social Media
Euan Semple on the recent Twitter abuse issues [http://euansemple.com/theobvious/2013/7/31/a-volume-control-on-mob-rule]: > Bullies gain strength from that audience. The audience is to blame for not saying anything. Sure their hardcore mates would have egged them on but there must have been some at the periphery
Politics
Do all those fine folks on Twitter represent a good cross-section of the general public? > Overall, the reaction to political events on Twitter reflects a combination of the unique profile of active Twitter users and the extent to which events engage different communities and draw the comments of active
Martin Belam
Martin Belam pretended to be a ghost on twitter – and discovered the misogyny lurking in our political debate [http://martinbelam.com/2013/bbcextraghost/]: > Then I announced that the next guest was going to be Emmeline Pankhurst, the first time it had featured a woman. Within a couple of minutes
APIs
Marco Arment has used the demise of Google Reader to explore how Google has changed since the rise of Facebook [http://www.marco.org/2013/07/03/lockdown] – and how the big three web players (Facebook, Twitter and Google) are no longer “webby” in the sense we once used the
X (Twitter)
This is sorta fun: my Twitter life captured as a video [https://www.vizify.com/adam-tinworth/twitter-video], including most popular Tweets and photos. Sadly, it’s not embeddable, so you’ll have to click through.
metadata
Well huzzah: > Hello Adam Tinworth, Your request to be included in Twitter Cards has been approved. We’ve activated Summary and Photo cards for *.onemanandhisblog.com. I’m becoming such a markup geek. (No idea what I’m talking about? Here’s the Twitter cards documentation [https://dev.twitter.
feed readers
Laura Hazard Owen, writing for Paid Content, identifies why the “social media has killed RSS” idea doesn’t apply [http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/14/google-reader-please-dont-go-i-need-you-to-do-my-job/] to many of us: > The best thing about Google Reader, from my point of view, is that it allows me to scan a
hacking
Well, that was something to wake up to… Twitter has indeed been hacked, with 250,000 accounts exposed [http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2013/02/02/twitter-confirms-that-it-was-hacked-and-250000-users-may-have-been-compromised/] , mine amongst them. > This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data. We
Journalism
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/01/IMG_7537.jpg] 1. Carrying your DSLR with you to do some video demos means you can grab unexpected fun images while waiting for a train 2. Confusion about what images from the web you’re allowed to grab
Blogging
Steph [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2012/10/29/10-day-back-to-blogging-challenge/] : > For the next ten days, starting tomorrow (Tuesday), I’m going to write a post a day. I’ll keep it short: blogging used to be quick and dirty, and somewhere between the arrival of Facebook and Twitter, posts have
broadband
Apologies for the patchy posting around here – I’m now in my 11th day without broadband or phone service at home, thanks to BT. I reported the fault on Thursday 4th as soon as it happened. By the time I was back from Berlin on the 10th – exactly nothing had
adam tinworth
 In news not entirely unrelated to my [last post](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/09/twitter_has_chosen_a_fickle_monetization.html), you can now find me [on Twitter
