X (Twitter)
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. .
Twitter's Irish data protection move Paid Members Public
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
Twitter sanitises @replies for verified users Paid Members Public
Talking of services with two tiers of users, Twitter is making life nicer for its elite “verified” 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 “filtered” option
Twitter joins the Group Messaging game - and brings video, too Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/01/twitter-group-messages.png] A big – but expected – 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 they’re adding video natively into Twitter
LeWeb: The age of Twitter diplomacy is here Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/12/matthias-lufkens.jpg] Liveblogged notes from Matthias Lüfkens’ 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
"Twitter is our competition" Paid Members Public
> “Twitter is our competition, we have faced up to that reality,” said Matt McAllester, Europe editor at Time. That’s 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/
Twitter's head of news out after a year Paid Members Public
Twitter’s 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
A plea to #smwldn live-tweeters Paid Members Public
In Clay Shirky’s 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]
Teasing the clickthrough, visually Paid Members Public
Really nice Twitter graphic from the FT communities team. A good “tease” 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] — Esther Bintliff (@estherbintliff)
