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9 Real-Time Search Engines Which Go Beyond Twitter « Thoughtpick
In the recent months, the real time search engine market has been firing-up. There are many services around trying to gain some market share in this newly found area. We did some research, read many articles, and covered up most of what’s out there (if we missed any service, please let us know in the comments). Twingly
Cardinal Sean Brady was speaking yesterday in Attymass, Co Mayo, where he unveiled a status to the world-famous ‘Rosary priest’, Fr Patrick Peyton, who was born there 100 years ago. Fr Peyton was renowned for his saying: “The family that prays together, stays together.” And Cardinal Brady — Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All-Ireland — said that the principle should now be transferred to 21st-century technologies. “In the name of Fr Peyton, I appeal to every Christian in Ireland today who sends texts, Twitters or uses e-mail to think about setting up groups of prayer between you and your friends using these modern means of communication,” said the cardinal. “I ask young people in particular to think of sending their friends and family an occasional Twitter or text to say that you have prayed for them.”
Cardinal encourages praying by Twitter - Europe, World - The Ind
Wael Abbas: concerned about police power Being in police custody in Egypt is not noted for being open to the public gaze, so earlier this month thousands of user of the micro-blog service Twitter were surprised to read updates, or "tweets", from police cells. Step by step the tweets gave an insight into what it is like to be in custody in Cairo. The outspoken Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas and Palestinian journalist Laila El Haddad both shared the minute details of their experience of custody, in two separate incidents, with fellow Twitter users. In about 40 tweets, Wael Abbas managed to inform his readers of his day-long experience in a Cairo city centre police station, where he had gone to complain about an alleged assault by two men, one of them a police officer, but ended up being arrested himself. Abbas started his day by tweeting: "fyi (for your information), i'm currently under arrest, if u did not hear from me today then i was not released".
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Detained in Egypt, but still tweeting
Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter | Magazine
Illustration: Christoph Niemann Last August, the people who putatively run Twitter — the small crew that three years ago launched the world’s fastest-growing communications medium — announced a relatively minor change in the way the site functions. The tweak would have a small effect on retweeting, the convention by which Twitter users repost someone else’s informative or amusing message to their own Twitter followers. Retweets start with RT, for “retweet,” and usually cite the first author by user ID.
I was talking with a friend of mine today who is a senior at a technology-centered high school in California. Dylan Field and his friends are by no means representative of US teens but I always love his perspective on tech practices (in part cuz Dylan works for O’Reilly and really thinks deeply about these things). Noodling around, I asked him if many of his friends from his school used Twitter and his response is priceless:
apophenia: Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody
Are Twitter Users Inactive? Depends How You Look at It
Hubspot ‘s second State of the Twittersphere report is out, and once again, a cursory glance reveals that a lot of Twitter users aren’t very active. However, it all depends on how exactly you define “inactive;” a look from a different perspective shows that less than 10% of Twitter users aren’t really using the service at all. It’s been a tough month for Twitter, stats-wise. Compete and Quantcast posted their traffic stats for May, showing that Twitter’s phenomenal growth has stopped or even reversed . Before that, a report from Harvard Business Review revealed that most Twitter users are passive, with 10% of all users accounting for 90% of the overall number of tweets. Now, Hubspot’s report, based on some 4.5 million Twitter accounts, pretty much confirms this.
Yesterday we heard from Harvard Business School researchers that only 10 percent of Twitter users are generating almost 90 percent of the content . Today, HubSpot , a Cambridge, Mass.-based startup, has released a study that not only backs up the findings of the HBS report, but also offers more granular information about the Twittersphere.
Ironic But True. Many On Twitter Are Just Silent
Perhaps the most common reason given for joining the microsharing site Twitter is " participating in the conversation " or some version of that. I myself am guilty of using this explanation . But is Twitter truly a conversational platform? Here I argue that the underlying mechanics of Twitter more closely resemble the knowledge co-creation seen in wikis than the dynamics seen with conversational tools like instant messaging and interactions within online social networks. Wikis are causally thought of as platforms for "collaborative" document creation.
Twitter is Not a Conversational Platform - O'Reilly Radar
Paid Twitter Streams Are Here: Super Chirp
This is a natural product for celebrities to embrace. But it’s also interesting for charities – loyal supporters can donate to the charity and get a stream of news relevant to that charity, or whatever. Some news outlets may try to charge for streams as well. I could imagine that at least some of our followers on our main Twitter account would pay to get additional information if it had enough value.
New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets - Convers
Bill Heil is a graduating MBA student at Harvard Business School, and will start at Adobe Systems as a Product Manager in the fall. Mikolaj Jan Piskorski is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at HBS who teaches a Second Year elective entitled Competing with Social Networks. Twitter has attracted tremendous attention from the media and celebrities, but there is much uncertainty about Twitter's purpose. Is Twitter a communications service for friends and groups, a means of expressing yourself freely, or simply a marketing tool? We examined the activity of a random sample of 300,000 Twitter users in May 2009 to find out how people are using the service.A study conducted by Harvard Business Review reveals that most Twitter users don’t actually use the service much, or even at all. In fact, 10% of active users are responsible for over 90% of all Tweets. According to the research, conducted on a random sample of about 300,000 Twitter users in May 2009, 25% of Twitter users don’t tweet at all, while 50% of users tweet less than once every 74 hours. Active users, on the other hand, tweet a lot, which makes Twitter a lot more like Wikipedia than an average social network (see graph below, courtesy of HBR). Although this may sound strange at first, Twitter really is more like Wikipedia than, say, Facebook.
Twitter is Not Your Average Social Network
While the 18-24 year old demographic is almost entirely on one social network or another according to a study by the Participatory Media Network – 99 percent to be exact — only a little over a fifth of this group is using Twitter . The study was released at TWTRCON ’09 in San Francisco, which if you didn’t know (and why didn’t you!) Technologizer’s own Harry McCracken was the “ official Twitterer .” Of this group, 85 percent follow their friends, 54 percent follow celebrities, and 29 percent follow both family and companies.
Twitter Not A Big Hit Among Young Adults | Technologizer
Jack Dorsey, the founder and chairman of Twitter, sees no reason why Iraqis cannot join the growing chorus of global "tweets" appearing on computers and cell phones worldwide every day. "We've always been focused on making sure that the lowest common denominator, the weakest technology, still has a voice," said Dorsey, who was in Baghdad this week with a delegation of high-tech executives at the invitation of the State Department. Cellphone-carrying Iraqis, Dorsey said, could utilize Twitter applications on their current mobiles for a range of things, even without broadband Internet connections, which are still in short supply in Iraq. "In our case that's using Twitter through SMS [text-messaging]," Dorsey added.
Is Iraq Ready for Twitter? New Media Enters a War Zone - TIME
The Great Seduction: The profundity of banality
This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) was among the staunchest advocates of the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program, and blasted The New York TImes for disclosing its existence in December of 2005. “Does anyone really believe that, after 50 days of having this program on the front page of our newspapers, across talk shows across America, that al-Qaeda has not changed the way that it communicates?” Hoekstra asked rhetorically.