New guidelines could mean only popular Twitter users are prosecuted for offensive comments. Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer will issue new guidelinesMeans Twitter user's 'reach' will be noted if they post offensive contentComes after Kent teenager was arrested for posting burning poppy photoTwitter users who libel individuals face same laws as newspaper editors By Mark Duell and Anna Edwards Published: 11:14 GMT, 14 November 2012 | Updated: 16:01 GMT, 14 November 2012 It might be the one of the few occasions in life when it's better to be unpopular than have lots of friends.
Twitter users who make 'grossly offensive' comments online could escape prosecution if they have barely any followers on the social media site, the Director of Public Prosecutions has suggested. But those who are followed by thousands could face the full force of the law if they publish offensive remarks as more people will see them, Keir Starmer said in a conference speech earlier this week. He warned internet users who defame public figures that they could find themselves in court. TweetPysch: Twitter Psychological Profiling Has Arrived. It was bound to happen.
We share a mountain of information on Twitter, some of it very personal, and it was only a matter of time before someone built an engine to analyze that content and turn it into psychological profiles. That person is Dan Zarrella, a guest contributor to Mashable and a social and viral marketing scientist. Dan's taken two linguistic methods for unraveling the written word, combined it with the Porter stemming algorithm to reduce words to their base meaning, and created TweetPysch, a simple new service that derives a psychological profile based on a user's last 1,000 tweets. Behind the scenes, however, TweetPsych is doing some sophisticated analysis on your cognitive content-rich status updates. The site is using the Regressive Imagery Dictionary (RID) and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) methods to analyze every character and return primordial, conceptional, emotional, and cognitive content.
It's an interesting idea to say the least. Great Twitter Applications for Small Business. Skip Advertisement This ad will close in 15 seconds...
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The micro-blogging website has traditionally veered away from email drops, relying on users to check out the site or app to catch up on what friends, family and famous movie stars are tweeting about. But from today, the service will send out the digest of Tweets based on what they believe are the most important Tweets you should be reading. 'Twitter archive' will enable you to search online history. By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 07:28 GMT, 27 November 2012 | Updated: 07:37 GMT, 27 November 2012 Twitter users face the embarrassment of seeing their online past resurrected after the CEO of the microblogging site revealed plans to create an archive of every tweet ever sent.
Currently, users of the site can only see their messages dating back to a certain point, allowing them to forget their online persona from years gone by. But that is all set to change towards the end of this year, when the site allows tweeters to download a full record of the activity on their accounts. Archive: Soon Twitter users will have access to a complete archive of tweets The move could raise privacy fears, as it makes it easier for people to access the billions of tweets which have been sent since Twitter launched in July 2006. CEO Dick Costolo announced the change during a talk at the university of Michigan, and suggested it would be finalised by the end of the year. The Power of a ReTweet!