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. .
Serving the Twitter Elite Paid Members Public
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 — verified users — to engage more easily with the world through Twitter. Interesting to see Twitter developing an effective Elite, with
Morning Coffee Reading, from the 24 hour social-media, digital-first world… Paid Members Public
Five recent reads you might have missed, and are well-worth your time: It’s a 24/7 social media world out there Friends of the blog Brilliant Noise have done some research into the difference between “always on” Twitter presence and more sporadic approaches: Always-on is a more strategic and
30 tools to help journos use Twitter better Paid Members Public
Twitter’s 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
Hacks/Hackers London liveblog: Peter Jukes tweets and Al Brown videos Paid Members Public
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. He’
Time to start paying attention to Vine Paid Members Public
I read this [http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/vine-is-creating-a-new-breed-of-internet-superstar] : > This kerfuffle at the Smáralind shopping centre near Reykjavík, Iceland, last weekend isn’t because One Direction are in town. It’s because of two stars from Vine, the six-second video-blogging site. Then I did this: Vine has been through
My top 10 tweets of 2013 Paid Members Public
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 – like the treatment of freelancers 4. Liveblogging and exclusive interviews still carry value.
#leweb - Go wide, not deep says Gary Vaynerchuk Paid Members Public
Allegedly Gary Vaynerchuk [http://www.garyvaynerchuk.com] hadn’t slept for two days before his talk at LeWeb. I well believe it given how rambling it was. This isn’t a conventional chronological liveblog, as I’ve tried to gather together his thoughts into subject groups… Go deep not wide
#leweb - Guy Kawasaki on social media and entrepreneurship Paid Members Public
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
