Turns out Twitter is even more politically polarized than you thought. Today in Wilmington, Del., US president Barack Obama gave the eulogy for Beau Biden, vice-president Joe Biden’s 46 year old son, who died last week from brain cancer.
The White House has released Obama’s remarks, which we have published here. “A man,” wrote an Irish poet, “is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.” Beau Biden was an original. He was a good man. A man of character. Your Eminences, your Excellencies, General Odierno, distinguished guests; to Hallie, Natalie and Hunter; to Hunter, Kathleen, Ashley, Howard; the rest of Beau’s beautiful family, friends, colleagues; to Jill and to Joe — we are here to grieve with you, but more importantly, we are here because we love you.
Without love, life can be cold and it can be cruel. To know Beau Biden is to know which choice he made in his life. But Beau was a Biden. And so, after the accident, Aunt Valerie rushed in to care for the boys, and remained to help raise them. Beau didn’t cut corners. Twitter’s Root Injustice — - meta - How To Make Twitter More Fair and Competitive The story of my experience on Twitter is the story that is celebrated—but rarely the case for most people.
When I joined Twitter in 2009 it was like showing up to a half-settled frontier town. I could talk with people who would normally never talk to me, I could gain a following in fields where I was years younger than most, and I could do this all from a laptop in my underwear. Twitter was magical in 2009 because the platform was getting a daily flood of users of all stripes eager to find accounts to follow. We’ll never be able to get back to that era of Twitter, but there are a ton of things Twitter can do to help users. Reward Engagement Over Inheritance Twitter has a built in method to reward users and it’s called the Suggested User List. The Suggested User List is a mechanism that can make Twitter more competitive but only if it rewards a behavior new users have a shot at. Active Followers > Legacy Followers. Home - Trendsmap Solutions. Visualizing Twitter. In the framework of our researches, we are focusing on twitter visualization.
This social platform indeed offers several opportunities for data visualization: social ties analysis, links between geography and themes/languages, real-time visualization of a particular topic (like a conference), or again to analyse a past topic and its “storyfication”. We spent last week recognizing recent developments related to the topic, identifying three main fields: Real-time visualizations: visualizing twitter stream in realtime during conferences or big events.Visual search: online tools that create a dynamic visual output for a twitter search.Storytelling: the use of visualization to tell an event in the past. There are both interactive and static examples.
We’d like to share with you a selection of these examples. Visual search. Visualize communities. Visible Tweets – A Twitter visualisation for displaying at events. Real-time local Twitter trends - Trendsmap. Moteur de recherche Twitter. Twitonomy: Twitter #analytics and much more...
Twitter et l'information.