Am. White House Aide Says Twitter Helped A Debt Deal Along. NATO using Twitter to crowdsource Libyan missile strike locations. 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: "Any military campaign relies on something that we call 'fused information'," he told a briefing. Bracken couldn't have said it any better. ICT4D Distance Learning Twitter chat.
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. A bunch of ideas and information came in via the comments section that helped us to figure out what is happening in the space, including info about ICT4D advanced degrees options, short courses, related courses, etc. In addition to following up with a couple established universities to see if (and when) they might be offering Masters level ICT4D programs, Ernst and I had a skype meeting with Mark Weingarten and Nick Martin, the folks over at TechChange (the Institute for Technology and Social Change). TechChange is a new organization dedicated to training practitioners and students to effectively leverage emerging technologies for social change.
In order to get some wider input, we invite you to join us for a twitter chat on ICT4D Distance Learning on Friday, January 14th at 11 am EST. Twitter 101: Experts Provide a Brief How-To Guide and Overview on Best... Twitter 101 by AU SMCEDU on Prezi. Broadcast Yourself. Did the Post's Election Twitter Experiment Work? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology. 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. The question that many news organizations have been wondering since then is, "So, did it work? " According to the Post's executive producer and head of digital news products Katharine Zaleski, the answer is yes, even though it didn't drive huge amounts of traffic to the paper's site. "The reason we did it was not so much for the traffic. The metric Twitter's head of media partnerships Chloe Sladden gave was what they call engagement. It's the first time that a media company's done this sort of thing, so we don't have a good comparison, but Sladden said that the 9% engagement was on the "high-average" for other types of promoted trends like today's "McRib is back.
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Backup. Paid to Tweet? - Page 1. Come with me through 117 pages of euphemisms, bureaucracy, and mayhem. Oops, April 15th… Why do they call it a tax “return”? The cable company doesn’t call its bill a “waste-of-time return.” Or is the IRS saying that, since government prints the money, we’re supposed to return it to where it came from? Anyway… Got up bright and early this morning—by freelance-writer standards—around 10:30 AM. Freelance Writer, Let Me Point Out Some Further IRS Abuses of the English Language… I have a file cabinet. At least no tipping is expected. Googled “File Income Tax”… Found a lot of ads offering to do this for free. Scrolled Down… Until I came to irs.gov/Filing, which I take to be the real thing. Clicked… And got a page with the IRS logo.
I’m easily distracted when doing my taxes, aren’t you? Page with Crest Was Titled… “Do I Need to File a Tax Return?” Had thought there was a law about that. The IRS wanted me to answer some questions. Clicked Some More… Got “Your Rights as a Taxpayer.” Address Is Requested… Exclusive: Biz Stone on Twitter and Activism - Biz Stone - Technology. 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. People who lived through this time repeatedly referred to feeling a "fever" to participate. Gladwell says this fever is better described as "a military campaign," adding that "Martin Luther King, Jr., was the unquestioned authority. " On Christmas Day 2009, Liu Xiaobo, a fifty-four year old Chinese writer, was sentenced to eleven years imprisonment for co-authoring a manifesto of human rights calling for political reform in the People's Republic of China. Twitter Security Alert: Avoid Clicking Tweets with Only Links (OnMouse Over Hack) Welcome to the Real World, Twitter App Developers - Technorati Blogging. 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? Makes you want to complain a little, right? Makes all the underdog startups want to bitch and moan about how Twitter has "changed" and now they're all about the profit and not about the innovation. Well try this: grow up. You don't need babying any more than any other industry does, and this is the way business works. In almost every industry in the world, there are big companies and small companies. It's survival of the fittest, and it works. In today's "Twitter economy" there's a glut of crappy apps. Those companies probably don't need to be around much longer.
The successful ones--so far, anyway--should quit complaining. Twitter is just doing business. A Short (and Personal) History of Social Media. 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. There are also thousands of Facebook and Twitter updates on the disaster appearing every minute. The web has been moved by the plight of the Haitian people. Our best wishes go out to the victims of this devastating natural disaster, as well as their families.
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