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YouTube -- RussiaToday: Libya fake Twitter ID explosion part of 'cyber war for democracy'?

Pied pipers are piping!

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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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Onion News Network -- Internet Outage Forces Public Into Street To Voice Their Inane Opinions
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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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Stowe Boyd -- Bang: A Microsyntax for Emergency Messaging

'I have proposed a microsyntax for sending and receiving structured Twitter messages during and relating to disasters. We should dedicate ‘!’ to indicate that a message is associated with a specific named disaster or emergency. This use of ‘bang’ or ‘exclamation mark’ should take precedence over other possible uses of the character. I propose we call this system ‘Bang’. A collection of two and three character codes based on bang should be developed to indicate various sorts of information useful in emergencies. For example, ‘!@’ could stand for the name of a person, based on the use of ‘@’ in Twitter and other applications. ‘!@@’ could be used for organizations, businesses, and so on. ‘!?’ could represent a question being asked, and ‘!!’ could be used for things desired, needed or the like.'

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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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Twitter / Jeroen Marechal: RT @anonops: Twitter.com now

'RT @anonops: Twitter.com now. Sorry to everybody. See you soon Twitter!!! FIRE FIRE FIRE!!! #anonops #payback #Wikileaks' -- (Later called off. Phew!)

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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Cryptome -- It's Not What You Tweet, It's Who You Tweet. A Short Introduction to the Retweet Economy

'As much of an online paradise as Twitter is, it's not *completely* free of the kinds of annoying behavior we see in the real world. High on the list are the sorts of adolescent posturing that social media in general make so easy--preening, name-dropping, ass-kissing, pandering, cliquishness, slavish trend-following. Yes, a tweet is usually just a tweet, but sometimes it's as conspicuously coded as the brand of jeans a high-school girl wears.'

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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Technology Review -- Bogus Grass-Roots Politics on Twitter

'Researchers have found evidence that political campaigns and special-interest groups are using scores of fake Twitter accounts to create the impression of broad grass-roots political expression. A team at Indiana University used data-mining and network-analysis techniques to detect the activity. In one case, a network of nine Twitter accounts, all created within 13 minutes of one another, sent out 929 messages in about two hours as replies to real account holders in the hopes that these users would retweet the messages. The fake accounts were probably controlled by a script that randomly picked a Twitter user to reply to and a message and a Web link to include. Although Twitter shut the accounts down soon after, the messages still reached 61,732 users.' -- And a whole new reality was set into motion.

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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Gillian Duffy (GillianTheBigot) on Twitter

Someone always has to take it a bit too far. (You're supposed to be lambasting the politicians, not each other. Remember who has/wants the guns.)

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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WWW 2010 -- What is Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media?

It's an immune system: '...any retweeted tweet is to reach an average of 1,000 users no matter what the number of followers is of the original tweet. Once retweeted, a tweet gets retweeted almost instantly on next hops, signifying fast diffusion of information after the 1st retweet.'

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Technium -- Twitter Predicts the Future

'If you can use Twitter to predict the future of movie tickets, then why not elections, or sales of other products? As the authors write: "This method can be extended to a large panoply of topics, ranging from the future rating of products to agenda setting and election outcomes. At a deeper level, this work shows how social media expresses a collective wisdom which, when properly tapped, can yield an extremely powerful and accurate indicator of future outcomes.'"

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Irish Times -- The revolution was not tweeted

'The Iranian Twitter Revolution meme is thoroughly debunked in Cloud Culture ...a third of Iranians have internet access and the number of Twitter users in the country during last June’s unrest amounted to just 0.082 per cent of the population. “It’s clear that its influence in co-ordinating a serious challenge to a powerfully entrenched regime was wildly overstated,” the report notes. The idea that Iran was undergoing a Twitter Revolution incorrectly characterised and even trivialised what happened last summer, says Parvin Ardalan, a leading Iranian women’s rights activist who attended the protests. “It was much deeper and wider than that. It involved people from every level of society,” she argues, adding that the focus on Twitter, Facebook and other social media helped bolster the Iranian regime’s claims that the protests were part of a western conspiracy to destabilise the country.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Tweet Radio

'Using our unpantentable Tweet-to-Speech™ technology, we've made it possible for billions of people to hear the "Pulse of the Planet" as never before.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Hack a Day -- Aural Twitter

'[POTUSCamacho] listens to his @public_timeline rss feed. In part one of his project, he describes creating a bash script in which he uses cURL get his private feed, sed to clean it and eSpeak to output a WAV file. In parts two and three, he goes on to discuss how he created an audio stream of @public_timeline and how he plans on tweeting vocally.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Conversations with History: Jaron Lanier

"If you're looking into the computer you're looking into a reduced mystery that's a maze of ideas that have been represented, but reality itself is not represented, it is larger. Instead of believing in this little smaller world as having something of value, you treat it as a conduit where it's a filter between people that allows people to see and explore each other in new ways and then you rediscover the fundamental mysteriousness of reality within that person on the other side."

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Mashable -- Facebook Slams Twitter: FarmVille is Bigger Than You

'The popular casual game boasts a current 69 million monthly active players, making it the largest Facebook (Facebook) application by a factor of more than two... Their daily active players count is now up to 26.5 million, up from 11 million just three months ago. While Twitter hasn’t itself released official user stats, research puts the figure close to 18 million by the end of the year.'

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Twitter To Make Money In 2010 With ‘Non-Traditional’ Ads: Biz Stone

How about a 'multi-level', brand-sponsored hashtag, RT pyramid scheme?

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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Sorta wish I worked 4 Twitter, Inc.

'Could imagine walking into Twitter every day, being inspired by people who I also inspire, just by existing, being full of life, and wanting to make the world a better place [via social technology]. Should I move to ‘Silicon Valley’ and start a microblogging community/real-time search pyramid scheme?' -- JAJA

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Bird and Fortune: New Media, Internet, Blogs, Twitter and Fame

"If you wrote in twitter 'I'm ... ' everyone would know and act accordingly."

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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TechCrunch -- NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth

Rubbernecking 2.0 -- 'Moore’s [tweeted] coverage was quickly picked up by bloggers and mainstream media outlets alike, something that she actively encouraged so she could tell them the truth, rather than the speculative bullshit that was hitting the wires. There was just one problem: Moore’s information was bullshit too. -- ... the ‘real time web’ is turning all of us into inhuman egotists. Her behaviour had nothing to do with getting the word out; it wasn’t about preventing harm to others, but rather a simple case of – “look at me looking at this.” I’m sure she genuinely believed she was helping get the real truth out, and making an actual difference. And that’s precisely the problem: none of us think we’re being selfish or egotistic when we tweet something...' -- On Neda Agha Soltan's death: '...the last thing that terrified girl saw before she closed her eyes for the final time was some guy pointing a cameraphone at her. “Look at me, looking at her, looking back at me.”'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Atomic Tango -- Hypocritical Mass: The Big Lie About Twitter

'...just because one can make money or promote a cause on Twitter doesn’t make it “social”; it makes it just another marketing platform, as the spammers who infest Twitter would readily agree. -- Despite all the bluster, Web 2.0 simply introduced different ways for businesses and customers to interact. Indeed, I would argue that social media has made communicating with corporations more difficult than ever since it’s created “just too much noise to sift through.” ...thanks to social media, corporations have to either hire several (or even hundreds) of customer service/social media reps, or they have to avoid customer contact as much as possible. -- Those most successful at using Twitter to promote themselves have learned that the “social” part is unwieldy. Because it’s impossible to track or respond to the tweets of thousands of people, the emerging “best practice” is to treat Twitter as a traditional mass medium.' -- web2.0 is a ponzi scheme, it is vitally important we realise this...

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC Radio 4 -- Moral Maze (Twitter Mobs Edition)

The perception IS the reality. That's the inherent danger of the immediate consenus-making ability of twitter and other realtime platforms. -- Brendan O'Neill: "Illiberal liberalism" "Emotional incontinence" Righteous indignation/enthusiasm. That's the inherent danger of immediate action/reaction/gratification as opposed to taking the time to think things through – "Boring, hard work," as Nick Cohen puts it. (As a #moralmaze tweeter said, links to in-depth resources provide the best alibi for "shallow" twitterhappy tweetstormers.) Nick Cohen: "There's a lot of utopianism. It's very shallow and very transient. A lot of it is apathetic. It's people affirming themselves." -- RE #moralmaze. It's not surprising to see tweeters so overly keen to defend any and every perceived threat to twitter, though it's not like its going away—calm down. Defending both their newly-felt right to be heard and the social/cultural capital they've built up over the years... TWITTER IS SERIOUS BUSINESS.

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Observer -- Beware the instant online anger of the HobNob mob

'There have always been people who have found reasons to take offence. A generation ago, protest was hard work. Now Facebook groups and trending topics on Twitter can, if they ignite, produce mass protests from nowhere. -- The ease of net communication explains why so much abuse appears in comments boxes. But it also undermines the authenticity of many mass protests. The targets feel as if they are on the receiving end of genuine popular feeling, when typically the anger directed against them is shallow and transient. -- A mob fighting a good cause is still a mob. To fight back, you need to remember that although the internet age is hugely expanding the number of complaints, the old rules still apply. Whether you are the owner of a tiny blog or the editor of a national newspaper, if someone points out an incorrect fact, you correct it; if someone challenges an argument, you argue back; and if someone says that you must think what they think, you ignore them.'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Spiked -- I am offended, therefore I am

'...there was something gratuitous about what Brendan O’Neill described as the liberal cause-hunter’s ‘two-minute’ hate. All the commentaries, the blogs, the tweets – all seemed a little too desperate to voice their disapproval, to reveal how disgusted they were. It was a spectacle of feelings, a seething mass of self-affirming emotional incontinence, a carnival of first-person pronouns and expressions of hurt and proxy offence. I feel, therefore I am. -- ...important for the spleen-venters was the act of claiming the moral high-ground as offended, as hurt, as a determined victim of something that they no doubt searched out on the web. This act of searching out offence and proclaiming the depth of one’s feelings from online rooftops threatens free speech. ...the danger of such a vast explosion of offence-taking is that it inhibits, creating a ‘you-can’t-say-that’ culture in which one is scared to speak one’s mind, whether its contents are moronic or not.' -- THE THOUGHTPOLICE IS YOU

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Inside Facebook -- Will Facebook and Twitter Become Communication Tools or Identity Platforms?

More on the fuckbook theory of fb. '...men are more interested in following women who they can find real information about, but women in general share less personal information (like you’d find on their Facebook profile) on Twitter, so as a result men follow women less on Twitter.'

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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Are tweens too socially immature for twitter and/or fame and/or the internet?

'“I stopped living for moments and started living for people.” — Miley Cyrus, 2009 -- I was reading that popular tween sensation Miley Cyrus deactivated her twitter account. It will go down in history as the ‘most tragic’ internet suicide of all time, since she had over 2 million followers. I have read ‘doomsday articles’ that say this is ‘the end of twitter’, since tweeple now have role models who were ’strong enough’ to quit twitter. Instead of mimicking role models who are ‘twitter addicts’, tweens will now be more independent and mimmick role models who are ‘twitter quitters. A lifestream of text filled with 140 character statements just doesn’t give U enough room to BE U. It seems like maybe she turned to ’social media’ to try to replicate human relationships+interactions+socialspheres, but it was just this weird experience of ‘people looking at her.’ -- Just want my life 2 belong 2 me, but also want my life to make other people feel jealous/bored with their own existences.'

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Tech Shrink -- Twitter attack: Crisis of disconnectivity

'At the lowest level, there is #Disconnectivity Anxiety, which I define as a persistent and unpleasant condition characterized by worry and unease caused by periods of technological disconnection from others. Some Tweeters may have devolved to the next level related to our overly connected world, #Disconnectivity Panic, which involves a frenzied and unfocused effort to get reconnected. Others may have sunk even lower to #Disconnectivity Catatonia, psychological and physical paralysis due to loss of technological connection. Though a truly scary thought, the endpoint of this continuum may be Disconnectivity Suicide, where life is just not worth living without technological connection. Though I have never heard of it happening, I will predict (sadly) that it will occur in the near future if it hasn't already.'

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- Facebook Has a Happiness Index Drawn From Posts

'The idea, one that is generally accepted in social psychology, is that word choice can reveal a person’s mood. This is true in ordinary writing, these experts say, and even more so in writing like Facebook updates or the tweets of Twitter users, which ostensibly are attempts to describe what you are doing right now and how you feel. The Facebook happiness index could be the first step in reorienting the nation’s sense of self-worth. “We have tracked the economic health of the nation for a long time. The reason we track those things is that the government is full of economists, not psychologists. I could imagine it would allow us to look at a group of people, get a sense of what their concerns are, how insecure they feel. It could be an advertiser’s dream. Yes, it is creepy from a government perspective, but it is even creepier from an advertising perspective.”' -- Creepy and extremely dumb. Measure actual behaviours not claims on behaviours. "I'm happy." "I'm sad." You're confused.

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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Psychology Today -- Understanding the Psychology of Twitter

'I twitter, therefore I am. I matter. -- Dr David Lewis, a cognitive neuropsychologist: "Using Twitter suggests a level of insecurity whereby, unless people recognize you, you cease to exist. It may stave off insecurity in the short term, but it won't cure it." -- Twitter's software designers were clever enough to program in tenacious intermittent reward systems, so you end up like a loser in Vegas, behaviorally trapped at the slot machines of life. -- Perhaps a more enlightened way to look at it is that you're really just enjoying a cyber-zen moment of mindfulness to be present and tweet thyself. We're all interconnected now - each of us acting like a single neuron in humanity's brain, firing bits of electricity at one another, slowly coadunating and collectively struggling toward a great awakening. That awakening could turn out to be the next stage in our evolution, and a single tweet the butterfly's wings that eventually leads to a big bang of global meta-consciousness.' -- OM...

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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Twitter / chad scoville: Twitter is a ponzi scheme

"Twitter is a ponzi scheme of reputational cache, measured by formative collectability of nonsense and nothing by no one." -- CAN HAS WHUFFIE FLAKES PLOX?

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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It takes a socially transcendent moment to remind us what makes life worth living.

'...twitter is an instant window into the lives’ of people. A chance to track the distractions that are filling up people’s lives’, momentarily taking over their brains. An impact significant enough to process a lil thought/meme about it. Whether it is a human, a product, a political scandal ... or a celeb death, the twitter’s portal into a generalized human psyche is priceless. We must embrace the power of this tool. We must embrace all tools that allow us to reflect/share/digitally mourn. We are growing up, learning how to use social networks to experience life together. We are learning how to mourn, celebrate, and crucify miscellaneous celebrities. We are learning that death memes are the memes that unite us. The internet/internet meme is a coping mechanism/opportunity. While events happen in ‘reality’ our opportunity to reflect upon them in a ’sillie lil online world’ helps us to cope with how deeply rattled we are by the underlying themes of highly bloggable events.''

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Overfollowing on Twitter

'Twitter works to quantize communication, making the numbers in the audience more important than what’s said. Of course, that has always been true of ratings-driven media, but it hasn’t been true for our conversations. But the genius of Twitter as a potential business is that it turns ordinary people into media companies. It lets us subject our conversations to Nielsen-like ratings, to regard our communications as a product conveying our personal brand. Then we can crunch the numerical data Twitter supplies to tweak our brand, and see what works to improve the numbers, which serve as proxy for our relevance and reach and, by extension, our right to feel important. The quantification disguises the emptiness of the social relations it is supposedly counting... ...we project things that make us feel important and pretend that it is for the benefit of unseen... We get a simulacrum of civic participation minus the trouble of other people and reciprocity and responsibility.' -- Numbers numb

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- 7 Ways to See the World Through Twitter’s Eyes

'One of the best utilities is Twitcaps, developed by Jonathan Griggs, who found himself using his own service in a way he never could have predicted after a tornado appeared nearby. “When we were having tornado warnings in Denver and the warning sirens were going off near my house, my girlfriend and I grabbed the laptop and made way for the basement,” said Griggs in an e-mail. “Once there, I looked up ‘Denver tornado’ on Twitcaps and found images of the funnel cloud moving northeast from Coors field — a good ways to the east of my house. This was far more information than was available from local news sources at the time, and was enough to set us at ease that we were in no immediate danger.”' -- It's all going a bit Archigram: The house could have monitored this and simply got up and walked away to safety.

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Not Enough Facebook ‘Friends?’ Buy Them

'An Australian online marketing company is selling friends and fans to Facebook members after offering a similar service to Twitter users.“The simple fact is that with a large following on Facebook, you have an instant and targeted group of people you can contact and promote whatever it is you want to promote,” he added. “The only problem is that it can be extremely difficult to achieve such a following, which is where we come in.” The company offers packages for Facebook, the world’s number one social networking site, that start at 1,000 friends up to 10,000 friends at costs ranging from $177 to $1,167. “All we do is send them a welcome message or friend request from the client. If they decide to go ahead and add that person as a friend or a fan then they will; if not, then they won’t." -- Surely someone can write a friend bot to do that.

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Onion -- Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids

''E-Mom' Gloria Bianco shows Jim and Tracy how geographical distance is no longer a roadblock to shamelessly interfering with the lives of your children.' -- HAHAHAHAHA

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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bigmouthmedia -- Twitter 'pointless babble' study causes web wars

Pointless backlash -- 'When US market research company Pear Analytics released a study that concluded 40 per cent of Twitter updates could be classified as "pointless babble", it's possible that a backlash should've been expected. That's what's happened, in any case, as a plethora of insulted Twitter users flocked to the web in order to voice their anger over the accusation.' -- RISPEK MAI TWITULARITAH!!! via @holychic

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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WSJ.com -- How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships

Soon you'll deny you ever had a facebook -- '"Online, people can't see the yawn," says Patricia Wallace, a psychologist... Amidst all this heightened chatter, we're not saying much that's interesting, folks. Rather, we're breaking a cardinal rule of companionship: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thy Friends. -- So what's the solution, short of "unfriending" or "unfollowing" everyone who annoys you? To improve our interactions, we need to change our conduct, not just cover it up. First, watch your own behavior, asking yourself before you post anything... And positively reward others, responding only when they write something interesting, ignoring them when they are boring or obnoxious. (Commenting negatively will only start a very public war.)' -- New tag: ambientinanity Perhaps not.

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought -- What Kind of a Thing is Twitter?

'We assume we know the people whose petty complaints and daily routines we’ve heard so much about because, traditionally, the only way to hear such things was to get to know them well. But it’s impossible to really know someone through sanitized soundbites. In 140 chars, there’s little room for the nuances of personality such conversation typically reveals. ...all see the carefully-prepared facade people want to present, and come away thinking that we know them better than we really do. With people we know in “real life,” this isn’t such a big deal. We already know their personality; Twitter simply helps maintain our relationship by keeping us up-to-date. And while, in doing so, it lets us maintain vastly more relationships ...on Twitter, at the same time you sign up to hear from Oprah, you can also follow—and cement your relationship with—more real friends. And it’s a good thing too, because with all these fake friends running around, we’re going to need all the real ones we can get.'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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apophenia -- Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming?

'It's all about shared intimacy that is of no value to a third-party ear who doesn't know the person babbling. It's a back-and-forth that makes sense if only we didn't look down at it from outter space. Of course it looks alien. Walk into any typical social encounter between people you don't know and it's bound to look a wee bit alien, especially if those people are demographically different than you. It's about the more subtle back and forth that allow us to keep our connections going. It's about the phatic communication and the gestures, the little updates and the awareness of what's happening in space. We take the implicit nature of this for granted in physical environments yet, online, we have to perform each and every aspect of our interactions. What comes out may look valueless, but, often, it's embedded in this broader ecology of social connectivity. What's so wrong about that?'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Epeus' epigone -- How Twitter works in theory

#Flow #Faces: Indeed, what you see are the faces of people you know with the notes they wrote next to them. This taps into deep mental structures that we all have to looks for faces and associate the information we receive with people we decide to trust, through what we feel about them. This is also why automated tweets not by them are so obtrusive, as they break the trust. Using friends' faces in ads is even more pernicious, as ads are by definition recommendations from people we don't trust. #Phatic #Following #Publics #Mutual media: Mutual media: The alternative model is one that is less familiar, yet is all around us - the spontaneous order that emerges from people communicating in parallel. ...we are each others media, we are the synapses in the global brain of the web of thought and conversation. #Small world networks'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Slate Magazine -- Microblogging has become too important for Twitter to rule the field.

'Twitter went down last week due to a distributed denial-of-service attack aimed at a single Twitter user—millions of zombie computers had been directed to cripple the user's social-networking pages (apparently as part of ongoing cyberwarfare between Russian and Georgian hackers). The rest of us were collateral damage—Twitter went down for you because of a beef between people on the other side of the world. Does this make sense? Winer doesn't think so. -- What if a major act of terrorism is organized using Twitter? Would there be pressure to shut it down or greatly control what it's used for?" Winer asks. If you think that's far-fetched, Winer asks you to consider the atmosphere after 9/11, when some people were calling for the Web to be monitored or shut down. Nothing ever came of that because it's too hard to shut down the Web or e-mail. "Twitter, which is fully centralized, would be easy for a government to control," Winer writes.' -- Bottleneckr

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Hackers Use Twitter to Control Botnet

"The tweets turned out to be obfuscated links to sites where further malicious code and instructions could be downloaded. Hackers have long used IRC chat rooms to control botnets, and have continually used clever technologies, such as peer-to-peer strategies, to counter efforts to track, disrupt and sometimes decapitate the bots. -- There’s something ironic about this finding, given that Russian hackers allegedly used a botnet to take Twitter down for two days last week. But we won’t go down that rabbit hole.'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Foreign Policy -- Think Again: Twitter

'#Authoritarian regimes should fear Twitter: Twitter creates an extensive online paper trail that can be easily used against dissidents. So Twitter could help authorities identify dissent at very early stages, tracking not just individual activists, but entire activist networks. An online friend list could enable a serious crack-down. -- #Twitter conversations are shallow and serious people should avoid it: Who cares? Obviously, Twitter is not the letters section of the New York Review of Books. Those looking for deep, long, insightful conversations shouldn't bother. But what attracts so many smart people to Twitter is a chance to follow what other smart people are reading and browsing -- and to do so in real time. What "Twitter virgins" do not understand is that Twitter actually facilitates the discovery of all those long and uber-insightful conversations that are happening elsewhere.' As a discovery tool that works for everyone, it beats everything else out there...'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Slideshare -- 24 Reasons why Twitter sucks!

"I know it is almost a crime to say these kind of things nowadays, but in no particular order I present you 24 reasons why Twitter sucks!" -- "#12. People think everybody is reading their freaking Tweets." -- "#15. It's like reality TV without pictures."

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Mashable -- Why Teens Don’t Tweet

'... teenagers have nothing to say on Twitter. Twitter is a huge promotional tool – for businesses, for bloggers, for self-described experts – but teenagers aren’t as concerned with these things as a whole. ...Twitter in its current form will be dominated by the over 25 crowd. Twitter offers something that adults crave more than teenagers: an audience. Facebook doesn’t fulfill this need as well as Twitter does, but the offset is that teenagers turn to Facebook to communicate with their friends.'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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FriendFeed -- Came over to FriendFeed since Twitter is down...

"Came over to FriendFeed since Twitter is down but all people seem to be talking about over here is Twitter. Sigh."

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Flickr -- When twitter is down...

"WHEN TWITTER IS DOWN, YOU MIGHT JUST QUIP YOUR PANTS"

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Flickr -- http://friendfeed.com/search?q=twitter IS DOWN???

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YouTube -- Twitter is DOWN!!

"And I realised, twitter is down—and then—I wanted to tweet that."

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Mashable -- Twitter Down: Twitter Doesn’t Know Why

"But if we can't tweet, we don't exist!"

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RWW -- Evolution of a Revolution: Visualizing Millions of Iran Tweets

'...how can a data stream be turned into real-time action, reaching the people who need it, when they need it, and in a form they can easily digest? At the most abstract level, history and computation are the same thing: the evolution of systems over time. Twitter has several remarkable properties that allow us to finally leverage this correspondence in tangible ways. The simplicity of its data, the openness of its system, and its extreme time resolution make it possible for us to detect atoms of history, those moments when something is triggered and society is reconfigured ever so slightly. Simply tracking the volume of various phrases gives us a sense of what is happening on the street, literally and figuratively. But that signal is but a shadow of a far more complex and intricate reality, an interwoven web of individuals and actions. -- Disruptive events lead to information elites.'

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MaxKeiser -- Dr. Blankfein or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Goldman Sachs

'High Frequency Trading (HFT) aka ‘flash trading’ will continue to grow exponentially. Trading will become so fast, time itself will have a public offering after Microsoft secures a patent on it and trading time futures will catapult traders backwards and forwards through time until they need bailouts on debts they have not yet incurred.' -- 'People will start taking themselves public on new Citizen Exchanges created by Obama; commit public sex acts to boost their stock price then short themselves before committing suicide to cash in out-of-the-money puts they bought on themselves. As a result, the porn industry will need a bailout.' -- 'Facebook and Twitter will go public... The more you look in the mirror the more you get paid. Narcissism will get monetized by the Feds with some help by Nassim Taleb. -- Thanks Lloyd Blankfein, current CEO of Goldman Sachs and future President of the United States. We are eternally in your debt.' -- HERDAQ

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The Communications Room -- The top 5 ways to enjoy Twitter and avoid the Twitter cult

'Now is it just me, or is there this weird group of fanatics growing that think they are influencing the whole of mankind in 140 characters? Seriously, it’s like a cult with chapters and stuff. Yes it’s important, rapidly growing, but let’s get some perspective and just a touch of rigour around some of the claims being made... #MJ was officially dead only when the cult said so #The cult has even delivered democracy to Iran through turning their avatars green' -- On self-regarding sensationalists... 'They title things in really sensational ways, even if it’s not related to the point they are actually trying to make. Why? They know that the cult will see it in their RSS reader, take in the first 4 words, then incorrectly Tweet about it claiming another victory for social media over evil...' -- The self-importance of such people never ceases to amaze.

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TechCrunch -- The Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack

'Gmail offered a hint as to which account the email to reset the password was being sent to, in case the user required a gentle reminder. In this case the obfuscated pointer to the location of the secondary email account was ******@h******.com. The natural best guess was that the secondary email account was hosted at hotmail.com. At Hotmail, Hacker Croll again attempted the password recovery procedure - making an educated guess of what the username would be based on what he already knew. This is the point where the chain of trust broke down, as the attacker discovered that the account specified as a secondary for Gmail, and hosted at Hotmail was no longer active. This is due to a policy at Hotmail where old and dormant accounts are removed and recycled. He registered the account, re-requested the password recovery feature at Gmail and within a few moments had access to the personal Gmail account of a Twitter employee. The first domino had fallen.'

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TechCrunch -- Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet”

'Already, Twitter made up “90% of the content” on Google Blog Search. As the minutes put it: “We are this product.” There was also talk of including microblog results on the main search page, which would be “the biggest change to google search in years.”'

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Twitcaps -- Real-Time Images From Twitter

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YouTube -- Max Keiser The Truth About TWITTER 2/6

'In the twittersphere, if you just take the tweetstream and put it on Fox News, people are going to be tweeting and looking at their own tweets and making assumptions on their own tweets in this divine narcissistic loop of ego destruction and id aggrandizement to the point where all information to do with self-preservation beyond the next 5 minutes is discounted as having no meaning; so all science, all religion, all philosophy, all the body of knowledge accumulated is meaningless in the twittersphere which is merely an open nerve that's being poked at by the aberant nature of individuals whose illnesses are being carried on the mainstream networks as "news".'

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SlideShare -- Chris Thorpe: Hiding data, content and technology in real world games

Nice little SMS treasure hunt game, 'And I Saw...' which produces crowd flow analytics for event organisers, and a 'Bond' reconnaissance twitter game that plays out in secret DM exchanges with M. Also mentions the Guardian's crowdsourced 'MP's Expenses Muckracking Game'. There's a common theme here ;^)

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YouTube -- TwittARound

'This is a video of the first beta version of TwittARound - an augmented reality Twitter viewer on the iPhone. It shows live tweets around your location on the horizon. Because of video see-through effect you see where the tweet comes from and how far it is away.'

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TechCrunch -- Twitter + World Of Warcraft=Tweetcraft

"The client also lets you upload in-game WoW screenshots using TwitPic and will automatically send out Tweets when you log in, enter an instance or get an achievement."

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Max Keiser -- [1042] The Truth About Markets (27 June 2009)

On twitter stampedes feedbacking volatility markets. -- Subscribe to the herdfeed. Bringing you falseflags daily.

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Telegraph -- Hedge fund managers betting Twitter will give them an edge in rapid trading

'Traders are using software developed by US-based technology StreamBase to monitor "tweets" for price sensitive information. The software allows traders to take into account "event-based" information published on Twitter in their automated equity, bond and foreign exchange trading. The company claims it could give traders an edge when deciding whether to trade on breaking news, like terrorist attacks and natural disasters, rather than waiting for the information to be filtered through providers like Reuters Thomson or Bloomberg. Nasir Zubairi, a former product manager for algorithmic trading and foreign exchange e-commerce at Royal Bank of Scotland, said the City would be looking at websites like Twitter.com as a useful market information "broadcast tool". "Markets tend to buy on rumour and sell on facts," he said.'

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The Onion -- Twitter Creator On Iran: 'I Never Intended For Twitter To Be Useful'

'"Twitter was intended to be a way for vacant, self-absorbed egotists to share their most banal and idiotic thoughts with anyone pathetic enough to read them," said a visibly confused Dorsey, claiming that Twitter is at its most powerful when it makes an already attention-starved populace even more needy for constant affirmation. "When I heard how Iranians were using my beloved creation for their own means—such as organizing a political movement and informing the outside world of the actions of a repressive regime—I couldn't believe they'd ruined something so beautiful, simple, and absolutely pointless."'

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Max Keiser -- Say that again! Who is responsible for killing five thousand political dissidents?

"Stacy Summary: Stay tuned for the shocker that comes from minute 01.36. [embedded YouTube] The interviewee casually mentions that Mousavi was responsible for executing thousands of political dissidents. Was anyone else aware of this??? I should imagine Rummy and Dick are thinking if they stay quiet for a decade or so, they, too, could possibly return as reformist heroes to the twitterverse?" -- What have the tweeple got themselves mixed up in?

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YouTube -- Former Deputy National Security Advisor Recommends Twitter for Nobel Peace Prize

America, FUCK YEAH!

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NYTimes.com -- Twitter on the Barricades: Six Lessons Learned

'#4. Watch Your Back: Not only is it hard to be sure that what appears on Twitter is accurate, but some Twitterers may even be trying to trick you. Like Rick’s Café, Twitter is thick with discussion of who is really an informant or agent provocateur. One longstanding pro-Moussavi Twitter account, mousavi1388, which has grown to 16,000 followers, recently tweeted, “WARNING: http://www.mirhoseyn.ir/ & http://www.mirhoseyn.com/ are fake, DONT join. ... #IranElection11:02 AM Jun 16th from web.” The implication was that government agents had created those accounts to mislead the public. ABCNews.com announced that Twitter users who said they were repeating (“retweeting”) the posts from its reporter, Jim Sciutto, had been fabricating the material to make Mr. Sciutto seem to be backing the government. “I became an unwitting victim,” he wrote.'

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Fast Company -- The Dark Side of Twittering a Revolution

'Consider, for a moment, what we're seeing happening in Iran: mass-action coordinated, at least in part, through Twitter; traditional media in Iran having lost any legitimacy for the angry populace, alternative media—like Twitter—increasingly becoming the sole source of information; and a growing sense of persecution and crisis, abetted by the limited streams of rumor-heavy news. -- Frank Chalk noted five circumstances that would allow the maximum intensity of a media-driven response to a crisis: #1. the introduction of a new medium of communication; #2. the use of a completely new style of communication; #3. the wide-spread perception that a crisis exists; #4. a public with little knowledge of the situation from other sources of information, and #5. a deep-seated habit of obeying authority among the target audience. -- All of these circumstances pertain to the promulgation of the genocide in Rwanda and many of them are found in other cases of genocide and genocidal killings, as well.'

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BusinessWeek -- Iran's Twitter Revolution? Maybe Not Yet

"Political organizers use these tools because they create a multiplier effect—not only do you get a story about the campaign but then you also get a story about the fact they are using social-networking tools. So you get two stories for the price of one. The international media loves [the] social-networking world. But in India or in Iran, their use is still somewhat limited." -- "There is this romantic notion that the people tweeting are the ones in the streets, but that is not what is happening. The hubs are generally not people on the ground, and many are not in the country." -- "Governments like Iran, Syria, and Egypt are really struggling with how to continue limiting information. No matter how hard these governments try to block communication, now there is always going to be a hole. This really is a case study in how technology can affect closed societies."

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NewsCred Blog -- Twitter Litter: The Benefits and Risks of Contemporary Citizen Journalism

'...we should also be conscious of the journalistic dangers of depending solely on the tweets and blog posts of inexperienced, and oftentimes politically biased, citizens on the ground. In the last 48 hours alone, the internet has been flooded with misinformation about the political turmoil in Iran. I have personally read widely differing accounts on the number of protesters and casualties at demonstrations, the percentage of fraudulent votes, the personal damage inflicted in university dorms etc… While major news sources are pressured into some degree of due diligence and fact checking before publishing information, citizen journalists are not held accountable for their contributions. -- If we cannot find a way to verify citizen reports for factual accuracy, or provide some independent assessments of the quality of news they are disseminating, then the risk is that all citizen reporting from the field will be discredited simply by virtue of it being written by ordinary citizens.'

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#iranelection cyberwar guide for beginners

(boingboing mirror) "#3. Keep you bull$hit filter up! Security forces are now setting up twitter accounts to spread disinformation by posing as Iranian protesters. Please don’t retweet impetuosly, try to confirm information with reliable sources before retweeting. The legitimate sources are not hard to find and follow. -- #5. Don’t blow their cover! If you discover a genuine source, please don’t publicise their name or location on a website. These bloggers are in REAL danger. Spread the word discretely through your own networks but don’t signpost them to the security forces. People are dying there, for real, please keep that in mind. -- #7. Do spread the (legitimate) word, it works! When the bloggers asked for twitter maintenance to be postponed using the #nomaintenance tag, it had the desired effect. As long as we spread good information, provide moral support to the protesters, and take our lead from the legitimate bloggers, we can make a constructive contribution."

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NYTimes.com -- Latest Updates on Iran’s Disputed Election

'“...appealed to the media not to use Twitter names because, they say, doing so could put people’s lives in danger.” One of the difficulties of asking us to not identify our anonymous sources is that, given how easy it is to stage hoaxes on Twitter, we have tried to identify those feeds that seem most reliable and we have reason to believe are actually coming to us from inside Iran. In other words we have tried to point only to feeds that have established a reputation for accuracy in the past few days. That said, it is entirely likely that the authorities in Iran may well be monitoring these Twitter feeds themselves and we will refrain from identifying individual feeds from now on.' -- With no verifiable usernames and the spread of Tehran timezone spoofings, it is '...impossible for journalists to trust that any Twitter feeds are in fact coming from inside Iran.'

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True/Slant -- What if Twitter is leading us all astray in Iran?

"...rumors can have a longer lifespan on a network of sympathetic blogs, Facebook postings and Twitter feeds. None of this is to excuse the behavior of the government after the election results came out. Or to diminish the bravery and courage of the people who are out in the streets in Tehran getting beaten. But what if it’s based on a lie? A Twitter-fueled, mass delusion of a lie? That the one third of people who voted for Mousavi convinced themselves, via a social media echo chamber that selectively picked rumors and amplified them until they appeared true, that they in fact represented two thirds of the country? And then tried to bring down the government based on that delusion? Maybe it’s not the case this time. But doesn’t this entire episode seem to show how such a thing could happen? And then what?" -- And a whole new reality was set into motion.

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The Daily Beast -- How Iran's Hackers Killed Big Brother

"The value of Tweets right now is less the information they contain than the solidarity they promote. Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present. Twitter, for all its faults, and the Internet, for all its insubstantiality, nonetheless serve as the strands of an existential telegraph. By resisting those who would censor history in real time, those flinging messages into the ether are demonstrating their freedom of speech—or, rather, their freedom to speak in spite of all efforts to the contrary. This mere gesture of freedom—the ability to connect to others and confirm one's experience of the world—is what social networking is all about. While this may or may not be enough right now to topple an unjust government, the opposition, in demonstrating that this freedom is now a permanent right, has already claimed victory." -- The network is flowing.

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TweetPsych

"TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets. The service analyzes your last 1000 tweets and works best on users who have posted more than 1000 updates. It also works best on accounts that are operated by a single user and use Twitter in a conversational manner..."

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The Daily Dish -- The Revolution Will Be Twittered

'"ALL internet & mobile networks are cut. We ask everyone in Tehran to go onto their rooftops and shout ALAHO AKBAR in protest #IranElection" That a new information technology could be improvised for this purpose so swiftly is a sign of the times. It reveals in Iran what the Obama campaign revealed in the United States. You cannot stop people any longer. You cannot control them any longer. They can bypass your established media; they can broadcast to one another; they can organize as never before.'

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apophenia -- Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody

'Dylan: "as for twitter, we are totally not representative, but ya a lot of people use twitter. it's funny because the way they are using it is not the way most do... they make private accounts and little sub-communities form. like cliques, basically. so they can post stuff they don't want people on fb to see, since fb is everybody." -- What Dylan is pointing out is that the issue is that Facebook is public (to everyone who matters) and Twitter can be private because of the combination of tools AND the fact that it's not broadly popular.' [Darknets] 'My guess is that if Twitter does take off among teens and Dylan's friends feel pressured to let peers and parents and everyone else follow them, the same problem will arise and Twitter will become public in the same sense as Facebook. This of course raises a critical question: will teens continue to be passionate about systems that become "public" (to all that matter) simply because there's social pressure to connect to "everyone"?'

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TIME -- How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

"Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles." -- "...the key elements of the Twitter platform — the follower structure, link-sharing, real-time searching — will persevere regardless of Twitter's fortunes..." -- "Twitter has been a hothouse of end-user innovation: the hashtag; searching; its 11,000 third-party applications; all those creative new uses of Twitter — some of them banal, some of them spam and some of them sublime. You don't need patents or Ph.D.s to build on this kind of platform."

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TechCrunch -- The Chattering Classes are now the Twittering Classes

"... most people on Twitter are not doing a lot of two-way “conversations” (@replies etc), and that this is generally a more advanced activity. Most people are using it to broadcast one-way, which - to be frank - misses a lot of Twitter’s huge potential as a global platform for conversation. ...we can surmise therefore that Twitter is big amongst those who used to be known as the Chattering Classes and it is not perhaps quite as mainstream in day-to-day use as many would like to think. Or at least, even if it is, most people listen but don’t tweet." -- Same people, same behaviours

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Vodafone Receiver -- Ambient Intimacy

"Ambient intimacy is about being able to keep in touch with people with a level of regularity and intimacy that you wouldn't usually have access to, because time and space conspire to make it impossible. Ambient is for the lightness, the atmospheric, non-directional and distributed nature of the communication. These are communications that are one to many; they're not quite broadcast and yet not exactly conversational; they flood over a somewhat defined space. Within that space is intimacy: the closeness, familiarity and warmth that this kind of communication can create and the ever-present network of friends available wherever you can access the internet, or even just send a text message." -- Four reasons why people bother with social networking: #1. anticipated reciprocity #2. reputation #3. sense of efficacy #4. identification with a group

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Tweet My Gaming

"Tracking game popularity trends on Twitter." -- When the micro actions within games are so easily tweeted, then I'll get excited. (#virtualworlds: we all 'live' in twitter now)

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Flickr -- Preview: The Twitterverse v0.9 by @BrianSolis & @Jess3

Spiral galaxy diagram of twitter services by function.

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Umair Haque -- Twitter's Ten Rules For Radical Innovators

Like the meaning of life being 'life', I think he's nailed the "what does twitter mean?" thing, here: '#1. Ideals beat strategies: What infuriates people most about Twitter is that it seems to have no plan, scheme, or angle. "Hey, Twitter" say the pundits: "don't you know the business of business is to profit, by any means necessary?" The business of business is to create value — and that's why Twitter's not playing the tired, old game of value extraction. It is trying, instead, to create a more authentic kind of value — and to do that, you need ideals. Twitter pursues its ideals — democracy, peace, equity — with the quiet intensity of a true revolutionary.' -- '#2. Open beats closed. #3. Connection beats transaction. #4. Simplicity beats complexity. #5. Neighborhoods beat networks. #6. Circuits beat channels. #7. Laziness beats business. #8. Public beats private. #9. Messy beats clean. #10. Good beats evil.'

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