This week saw the first inaugural use of the word “gay,” the premier of FOX’s scary-as-shit serial killer show, ‘The Following’ (good stuff) and way too many headlines about lip-syncing and ‘Star Wars’. Turns out, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ is getting that sequel after all (filming starts in May), and Hollywood is cranking out a shit-ton of TV pilots (mostly […]
The following email arrived in my inbox today from CEO Linden Tibbets of IFTTT (If This Then That). This is a major bummer for those of us who regularly use Twitter-centric recipes for sharing and building connections across our other social networks, like Facebook and Delicious. Please join me in a moment of silence for innovation, social sharing […]
Facebook and Twitter might be the most popular social networks, but there are other places to create and curate content, Pew Research has learned. Users are increasingly turning to Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr for photos and videos. In a study entitled, “Photos and Videos as Social Currency Online,” researchers Lee Rainie, Joanna Brenner, Kristen Purcell asked […]
ComScore | Nearly 66.9 million mobile users accessed social networks or blogs via mobile devices during March 2012 in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, seeing a stronger growth rate of 43 percent. An analysis of the leading social networks showed that the growth rates from mobile users accessing social networks far outpaced growth rates […]
Facebook and Twitter Are Still Relatively Small Drivers for News Over all, just 9% of Americans very often follow news recommendations from Facebook or from Twitter on any of the three digital devices (computers, smartphones or tablets). That compares with more than a third, 36%, who very often go directly to news organizations on one […]
Semiocast analyzed 383 million of Twitter user profiles created before January 1st 2012. Semiocast used its proprietary platform, databases and tools to process user profiles in order to determine the location of each user using all available information, including free-form location declared in user profile, time zone, language used to post tweets and GPS coordinates for […]
Many defenders of Twitter’s recent announcement have jumped on board without the facts, just as quickly accusing naysayers of being ‘misguided‘, even citing the move as being ‘good for activists‘. Most arguments rely too heavily on trusting the company to share censorship requests on Chilling Effects, and fail to discuss its lack of complete transparency on the details of their […]
Prominent technology news website, CNET, published an article on January 24 highlighting some rather ignorant discussion against the LGBT community happening on Twitter. The author, Chris Matyszczyk, included several choice quotes about AIDS, pedophiles, added a reference to Twitter users being worked into a “pink tizzy,” and included screenshots of anti-gay jokes he found online, […]
