If Twitter Gets Into The Video-Hosting Game, It Could Be A Wonderful, And Horrible, Thing. According to AllThingsD, Twitter has decided to get into the business of hosting video by acquiring NYC startup Vine. We’ve reached out to Twitter but haven’t been able to confirm this as of yet. If true, this marks an important milestone for Twitter, which is in complete attack mode when it comes to turning into a media powerhouse. As it stands now, you can upload photos to attach to your tweets, thanks to Twitter’s own service, and it’s probably the easiest way to share photos on the service.
Video is a logical next step for Twitter and the yet-to-be-released Vine, but this could get really tricky for the company, fast. You see, you can already share photos and videos on services like Facebook and Google+. What am I getting at? Before you ask, “But what about services like Socialcam and Viddy? It makes sense for Twitter to get into this game, as it relies heavily on YouTube and other platforms to serve everyone’s followers with video. I haven’t used Vine. RIP @Bill_Nye_Tho: Creator of Twitter’s Favorite Parody Account Says He’s Done.
"I'm just going to let @bill_nye_tho be dead, whether they unsuspend it or not. " By Jessica Roy 9/20/12 4:58pm Share this: Mr. Gardner (Photo: Twitter) When word broke yesterday that Twitter had suspended @bill_nye_tho, a hilarious account parodying every 90s kid’s favorite scientist Bill Nye the Science Guy, Twitter users erupted with a mix of outrage and despair. “I’m just going to let @bill_nye_tho be dead, whether they unsuspend it or not,” he said. As The Daily Dot pointed out, this isn’t the first time the account has faced suspension from Twitter. The real Mr. Mr. “I was thinking about how, in middle school and even into high school, even kids who didn’t care about science, and would spend science classes dicking around or sleeping – they always shut up when Bill Nye was on,” he said in an email. Since then, @bill_nye_tho has exploded to hundreds of thousands of followers, though Mr. Despairing @bill_nye_tho fans need not fret; Mr.
By Taboolaby Taboola You May LikeFrom The Web Undo. NBC Olympics and Twitter fury - a study in on-demand expectations unmet. With three nights of record ratings, NBC’s coverage of the London Summer Olympics is winning on the prime-time TV front. But it looks to be losing in major ways in the world of social media, as a rising tide of complaints about the network’s policy of tape-delaying major events — such as those involving Michael Phelps — appear on Twitter, accompanied by such hashtags as #nbcfail and #nbcdelayed. The disconnect between NBC’s success on TV and failure in social media highlights not only the landmark transformation taking place in media these days, but also the radical change in audience expectations and behavior, analysts say. Like many media companies, NBC has tried to lure viewers to its digital platforms with promises of providing information 24/7, whenever the consumer wants it.
But now, the network is feeling the heat in social media for not feeding the very on-demand appetite it helped create “This kind of reaction to tape delay in Olympics coverage has always been there. Huge Changes Are Coming To Twitter. The best of Twitter in your inbox. Starting today, you can discover the best of Twitter in a weekly email digest delivered to your inbox.
This summary features the most relevant Tweets and stories shared by the people you’re connected to on Twitter. Stories feature a design similar to the recently updated Discover tab, emphasizing who shared each story beneath summaries to help you decide which ones matter most to you. Click any headline to finish reading the story, add your take by tweeting directly from the email, and see related Tweets from the people you follow. This new email digest also features the most engaging Tweets seen by the people you follow, even if you don’t follow those who wrote them. Cards. Introduction With Twitter Cards, you can attach rich photos, videos and media experiences to Tweets, helping to drive traffic to your website. Simply add a few lines of markup to your webpage, and users who Tweet links to your content will have a “Card” added to the Tweet that’s visible to their followers.
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Drive app downloads from your Tweets Get started in 4 simple steps Ready to get started with Cards? Twitter Turned Down A $10 Billion Offer From Google. Transparency Report. Wednesday marks Independence Day here in the United States. Beyond the fireworks and barbecue, July 4th serves as an important reminder of the need to hold governments accountable, especially on behalf of those who may not have a chance to do so themselves. With that in mind, today we’re unveiling our first Twitter Transparency Report.
Inspired by the great work done by our peers @Google, the primary goal of this report is to shed more light on: government requests received for user information, government requests received to withhold content, and DMCA takedown notices received from copyright holders. The report also provides insight into whether or not we take action on these requests. One of our goals is to grow Twitter in a way that makes us proud. Here’s the data, which dates back to January 1, 2012. We’ve received more government requests in the first half of 2012, as outlined in this initial dataset, than in the entirety of 2011.
Twitter Should 'Memorialize' Our Accounts when We Die. For many of us, there’s nothing online that reflects our personality more than our Twitter accounts. The things we do, the links we share, the opinions we hold – they’re all there in 140-character doses for everyone to see. What happens when we die though? I’ve always had a strange feeling when looking at the Twitter accounts of people who have died. They read like self-penned epitaphs, running commentaries of lives that suddenly, and sometimes unexpectedly, came to an end. Yet they’re fragile memorials, open to hacking or being deleted if someone manages to persuade Twitter to grant them the username after it’s been inactive for a certain amount of time. This was highlighted recently when social technologist Christian Payne blogged about his experience of receiving a Twitter DM from a friend who died four years ago.
The spam DM that Christian Payne received In death as in life Other social services already have ‘memorialization’ procedures in place. Library of Congress, Twitter Record Life Today. The US Library of Congress has spoken in detail about an initiative that it is running with Twitter to record the communication “of our time”, through an archive of tweets from the service. Last year, the library revealed that an agreement with Twitter had given it access to every public tweet ever sent on the service, and Bill Lefurgy, digital initiatives program manager at the library, shone more light on the project’s scope in an interview with Federal News Radio. News of the archive initially received a mix response, with many concerned that information on a social network would be placed on record.
However, as Lefurgy explains, the initiative is not sinister and it aims to document the life and times of today through the hugely popular microblogging service: We were excited to be involved with acquiring the Twitter archives because it’s a unique record of our time. It’s also a unique way of communication.