Twitter: Here's How to Hide Your Tweets from Google. Meet Pentametron, A Bot That Only Tweets In Iambic Pentameter. Meet Pentametron, a robot that is a literature nerd's dream.
It uses an algorithm to find and retweet rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter. Through a Twitter account, Pentametron retweets sequential tweets that fit into the ten-syllable alternating-stress meter commonly used in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, complete with rhyming couplets. It also posts them on Pentametron.com in 14 line sonnets. According to Gawker, the bot first "strips the tweet of emoticons and ASCII art. It then cross-references each word against the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary... "I always find some new funny or accidentally profound thing there to enjoy," Ranjit Bhatnagar, the creator of the bot tells Gawker. 'Politwoops' Collects Politicians' Deleted Tweets. 'Twittamentary' Uses Twitter to Tell Real American Stories. NEW YORK — "I heard Twitter was a stupid place [where] people just talk about what they wanted to have for lunch.
And I said, 'Well, that's where I belong, because I like lunch, too.'" That snippet from Darren Williger (known on Twitter as @williger), who identifies himself as a "sales professional," comes early in the new movie, "Twittamentary. " The documentary debuted last night (June 19) in New York City at the 140 characters conference, a gathering that focuses on the human stories behind the social network. The movie is a road-trip documentary, from New York City to Los Angeles, that uses the Twitter to trace the stories of Americans across the country — from a stock trader to a homeless woman, from an improv comedian to a hooker. Siok Siok, a Singaporean TV producer, came to the U.S. to tell the stories of people who caught her attention on Twitter. "Can Twitter get anybody out of homelessness? But the less-dramatic cases really stand out.
Sen. Chuck Grassley Reveals Secrets of His Odd Twitter Habits. To Follow or Not to Follow: Should Small Businesses Follow Everyone Back on Twitter? This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
Marketers know that Twitter is a valuable tool used to reach out to thousands of customers. But it's not just the output of content that's valuable — the people and other businesses you follow on social media are of equal worth. Unless your account is private, you have no control over who is following you (unless you block them). However, you personally select your followers. Twitter Tool Aims to Put Americans Back to Work. It's no secret Americans are on the hunt for jobs.
Social recruitment site TweetMyJobs would like to help — by connecting potential employees and jobs through social media referrals. U.S. Wants You to Hunt Fugitives With Twitter. Tag Challenge co-founder J.R. deLara.
Photo: Jenna Isaacson Pfueller/Wired.com A worldwide manhunt kicks off at the end of March — a search across America and Europe for five fugitives, identifiable only by their mugshots. The successful team of trackers not only gets a $5,000 bounty from the U.S. State Department. They demonstrate to the planet’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies that they can hunt down fleeting suspects using nothing but their wits and social media connections.
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While China Will Dominate The Future. Twitter CEO: Company Won't Be Ready For IPO For "A Couple Of Years" Studies on Twitter. Twittter Personnel. Video: HP Predicts Popularity of News Before It Hits Twitter. Twitter Issues. Tweets still must flow. One year ago, we posted “The Tweets Must Flow,” in which we said, The open exchange of information can have a positive global impact … almost every country in the world agrees that freedom of expression is a human right.
Many countries also agree that freedom of expression carries with it responsibilities and has limits. As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there. Others are similar but, for historical or cultural reasons, restrict certain types of content, such as France or Germany, which ban pro-Nazi content. Until now, the only way we could take account of those countries’ limits was to remove content globally. We haven’t yet used this ability, but if and when we are required to withhold a Tweet in a specific country, we will attempt to let the user know, and we will clearly mark when the content has been withheld.
Only at CES: Could Tweets Replace Ads? It's called engagement, it's the catchphrase behind one of ReadWriteWeb's top technologies of the year, and it's emerging as one of the latest conceptual technologies on the floor of CES 2012 this week.
In the back of ad executives' minds during Salesforce.com's introduction of Radian6 last year, there must have been cogs turning and wheels spinning about how viewers tweeting each other could be leveraged as an engagement tool. Specifically, what if people tweeting about a show became integrated into the show? Schmap Releases Tool to Break Down the Demographics of Your Twitter Followers. The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.
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