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Who would have thought that Twitter , a place for so many people to muse about their lunches and rant about their boring lives would actually be used to help triangulate bombing targets in Libya? Yes, NATO is now including Tweets as part of its "intelligence picture" in an attempt to locate Gaddafi and his nefarious forces. Rest assured, while Twitter has proven to be a great source for citizen reporting, especially in recent happenings in Egypt and Japan , all "relevant tweets" still need to be "fed into an intelligence pool then filtered for relevancy and authenticity, and are never passed on without proper corroboration." Good, that ensures that Twitter hoaxes like this one involving last year's Haiti earthquakes don't lead NATO forces to shoot off missiles at a town of innocent folk. According to Wing Commander Mike Bracken, a NATO spokesman:
NATO using Twitter to crowdsource Libyan missile strike locations | DVICE
December 20, 2010 by Linda Raftree A little more than a month ago, I wrote a post asking ‘ Where is the ICT4D distance learning .’ Ernst Suur and I had been trying to figure that out since last July.
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On election night, the Washington Post bought one of Twitter's "promoted trends." When users clicked the trend, #Election, Post content got top billing. It marked the first time that a media company had purchased a promoted trend to promote their own material, and I thought it was a really interesting move.
Did the Post's Election Twitter Experiment Work? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
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“I must have pinched a nerve in my neck,” Kim Kardashian tweeted recently. “I can hardly look to my left. I will pass on my workout today.The New Yorker recently published a thoughtfully written article by Malcolm Gladwell titled, " Small Change: Why The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted ." Citing research done by Stanford sociologist Doug McAdam, Mr. Gladwell compares what he sees happening today among people connected by modern social media to the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Real social change, Gladwell argues, is a phenomenon driven by something described as "strong ties" in the field of mathematical sociology.
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Twitter Security Alert: Avoid Clicking Tweets with Only Links (OnMouse Over Hack)
There’s a recent Twitter security hack doing the rounds on the internet where certain tweets, that contain only links are being sent around, which are links that exploits the “On mouse Over” security loophole on Twitter. When you click/on mouse over these links, third party websites pop up in your browser.
Well hello there, Twitter developers. Almost didn't see you laying flat on your face after Twitter just steamrolled you with the new Twitter redesign . It hurts, doesn't it?
Welcome to the Real World, Twitter App Developers - Technorati Blogging
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Haiti Earthquake: Twitter Pictures Sweep Across the Web [PHOTOS]
An outpouring of well wishes and support for the Haitian people has swept the web in the wake of a devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti . And just like during the Eureka earthquake , tweets have quickly spread moving and gut-wrenching TwitPics of the disaster. Photos taken by journalist @CarelPedre on his mobile phone are providing a glimpse into the devastation that has slammed the Caribbean nation. Another Twitter user, @MarvinAdy , shared those pictures through TwitPic, resulting in tens of thousands of views and countless retweets.TechCrunch
SoMe is a film about the rise (and fall?) of social media. Produced by web rabble-rouser and satirist, Loren Feldman , the film will feature Feldman’s signature puppet act (it will be cool, I promise) and interviews with and segments about web luminaries like: Julia Allison, Michael Arrington, Steve Ballmer, Henry Blodget, Chris Brogan, Robert Bruce, Paul Carr, Pete Cashmore, Brian Clark, Ron Conway, Henry Copland, Jay Cuthrell, Mike Daisey, Barry Diller, Jack Dorsey, Dan Farber, Steve Gillmor, Paul Graham, MC Hammer, Shel Israel, Andrew Jecklin, Steve Jobs, Kim Kardashian, Ashton Kutcher, Loic LeMeur, Jakob LodwickTwerpScan is your new Twitter contact management site. List and sort your followers and friends, up to 100 at a time. Follow, unfollow or block contacts right on the spot — either one by one, or many at once.