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Twitter Ethics and the Olympics

Aug 15, 2016

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSports and live events are Twitter Cash cows, as a result of which the will of those contributing to twitter financially is given priority. I have seen two or three tweets about the speed with which olympicÂ animÂ gifs and other content is removed. In one case I saw that content is pulled down…

IFTTT – Instagram to Twitter

Jun 22, 2016

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Reading Time: 2 minutesInstagram is still a healthy social network. It still finds an engaged group of users who want to share their adventures, meals, friendships and more with other users. Some of them love sharing selfies and others share beautiful landscapes. This keeps the network vibrant and young. Twitter on the other hand has…

My love/hate relationship with twitter turns Ten

Mar 21, 2016

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Reading Time: 2 minutesI have been active on the World Wide Web for two decades, two thirds of my life. Half of that time has been spent as a twitter Â user. I was among the first to use the service and I saw it go from being a curiousity to being the most popular conversation…

The Guardian, Google and advertising Revenue

Mar 19, 2016

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Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a reasonable amount of time I would check all of the news websites on a daily basis. These include The Guardian, the Independent, BBC news and french news sources. In so doing I was kept up to date with current affairs. Certain websites, such as the NYtimes and Le Temps were…

Reactions – What if Twitter died

Feb 6, 2016

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou can tell when someone joins a social network by what they think the network is for. I joined twitter in 2006. No one knew what the network was best at, eventually everyone decided to use it as a conversation tool. When people understood how dynamic conversations could be the network…

Conversational Social Networks

Jan 28, 2016

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Reading Time: 2 minutesBen Thomspon wrote, “How Facebook Squashed Twitter”. Â The article looks at social networks from a marketing point of view. I like conversational social networks. Social networks by their very name are for conversations. They are about connections and they are about friendship, collaboration and more.Â In its Golden age twitter was a…

Vanity fair is wrong to label Zuck as the top disruptor

Sep 9, 2015

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Reading Time: 2 minutesZuckerberg Tops Vanity Fair’s 2015 List of Disruptors Every successful social network first establishes a friendship network where a tight knit group of people interact with each other on a very frequent basis. In the case of facebook it was uni friends interacting with uni friends from the same campus. On twitter…

is twitter changing your blogging habits? – A 2008 response

May 4, 2015

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteYes and no. Twitter is replacing instant messaging and chatrooms. Itâ€™s an open method by which for people to communicate instantly with others. Itâ€™s also about the overheard conversation although that term has disappeared. What does â€œoverheardâ€ mean? Well simply that whenever two people discuss a topic hundreds of people are…

Social conversations and the social media

May 1, 2015

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Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you read “How to Win Friends and Influence People” you see how important it is to take notice of other people, to be positive and to be interested in what they are doing. That can be a challenge for everyone. We all have different priorities so putting other people first is…

Social media, loneliness and isolation.

Mar 22, 2015

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Reading Time: 3 minutes”The pathology of social media is all about loneliness” Social media professionals take the weekend off. Twitter users use hashtags so that their content can be found without being followed. Everything is turned towards discoverability rather than commitment and conversation. Social media practitioners know that people aren’t listening attentively so they repeat…

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