First Look: Firefox 8 Adds Twitter Search, Tightens Add-on Controls CIO. Ralph Fiennes blames Twitter for 'eroding' language. "I hear it, too, from people at drama schools, who say the younger intake find the density of a Shakespeare text a challenge in a way that, perhaps, (students) a few generations ago maybe wouldn't have. " He said: "I think we're living in a time when our ears are attuned to a flattened and truncated sense of our English language, so this always begs the question, is Shakespeare relevant?
But I love this language we have and what it can do, and aside from that I think the themes in his plays are always relevant. " Fiennes, who does not use Twitter, is not alone in his theory. JP Davidson, the author of Planet Word and a linguistic expert, talked this week about longer words dying out in favour of shortened text message-style terms. “This could be viewed as regrettable, as there are some great descriptive words that are being lost and these words would make our everyday language much more colourful and fun if we were to use them. Marketers struggle to harness social media like Facebook & twitter: IBM Survey. LONDON: Marketing chiefs feel overwhelmed by the growing volume of customer data on websites like Facebook and Twitter, and while they realise its potential value they consider themselves ill-equipped to harness it, an IBM study found.
Only 26 percent of chief marketing officers track blogs and just 40 percent track any online communications, while 82 percent still rely on traditional market research to shape marketing strategies, according to the study. A few top consumer brands, such as Coca-Cola , Nike and Starbucks -- are using high-profile social media campaigns to great effect to find out what their customers want and to communicate with them. But most CMOs are struggling to prove that investments in social media marketing would yield returns, according to the survey of more than 1,700 CMOs published on Tuesday and carried out in face-to-face interviews from February to June. "The perfect solution is to serve each consumer individually. The problem? Nobel Peace Prize: Could Facebook or Twitter win?
How Twitter is preparing for its big iOS debut. It’s shaping up to be a busy autumn for Twitter. The company’s microblogging service will be integrated into the next version of Apple’s iOS operating system, which is set to roll out at the big Apple event slated for October 4. So is Twitter in complete panic mode preparing for the coming onslaught of traffic? According to the company’s engineering VP Michael Abbott, not so much. “iOS is not something we have to brace for,” Abbott said in an on-stage conversation with Om Malik on Tuesday, day two of GigaOM’s Mobilize 2011 conference. “During the last nine months, there’s been more infrastructure changes at Twitter than there had been in the previous five years at the company,” said Abbott, who joined Twitter in May 2010.
That’s not to say that Twitter does not expect the Apple integration to be a big deal. It’s just that Twitter has already had a lot of experience dealing with fast growth, particularly over the past year. When Can Employers Fire You for Facebook, Twitter? Employers often have rules about Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites, and people have been sacked for going against company policy. But the punishments may not all be justified. According to a report by The Associated Press Monday, a surge of more than 100 complaints has come to the National Labor Relations Board -- the majority within the past year -- over confusion about what is permissible on Facebook and Twitter.
Employers are struggling to figure out what the right policies are and what they should do when these cases arise, Michael Eastman, labor law policy director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, told The AP. Some comments on social media can clearly cause an employer to take action. Cisco just offered me a job! Riley was roundly criticized on Twitter for the comment (she had already turned down the position). But other cases are not so clear cut. Facebook, Twitter, BlackBerry chiefs quizzed by Parliament over riots. After the riots across England last month, social network chiefs from Facebook and Twitter, along with representatives from Research in Motion, attended a UK parliamentary committee yesterday to discuss the role of social media and technology during the week of violence.
Research in Motion drew heavy criticism by politicians and the public, as it was discovered that the encrypted BlackBerry Messenger network was used by rioters to spread locations of places where disorder eventually occurred. Facebook and Twitter were also criticised during the aftermath of the riots, but Facebook said that many of its users "self-policed" the site. Twitter, on the other hand, was defiant and said that the "tweets must flow", a point it made during the Arab Spring uprising earlier this year. (Source: BBC) His evidence did not cover, however, whether the company would hand over instant messenger logs or its encryption keys to the police or intelligence services.
Related: Bek D.: Why Twitter Marketing? -... Why Twitter Marketing? : Twitter. Twitter was developed in August of 2006 & has become one of the fastest Social Media Platforms around and in November of 2009 Twitter had reached 5 Billion Tweets. The Growth of Twitter continues to grow at an unstoppable rate. Right now there are over 105 Million registered Users and there are 300,000 new sign ups everyday. Twitter generates almost one in ten Social Media global hits to websites according to web analytics firm, StatCounter. Google and Bing have both integrated Twitter into their search results, maintaining Twitter as a major source of information, new, products, & services. Twitter is a trusted source sometimes over Search Engines.
Twitters Speed is 2nd to none in the Social Media world. The more followers you have the further your message goes. 180 Million Unique visits come to Twitter every month. Four Stages in the Life of a Twitter User. Boy Scouts of America Introduces New Merit Badge… With Roots That Date Back to 600 AD. U.S. Exports Hit $178 Billion in July. By R. Mitchell on Sep 08, 2011 in Money WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – The United States exported $178 billion in goods and services in July 2011, an all-time high, according to data released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the U.S.
Commerce Department. Exports of goods and services over the last twelve months totaled $2.005 trillion, which is 27.3 percent above the level of exports in 2009. “Exports are a bright spot in our economic recovery, and it is critical that we encourage more American companies to compete in international markets,” said Hochberg. Over the last twelve months, the major export markets with the largest annualized increase in U.S. goods purchases were Turkey (51.0 percent), Panama (36.3 percent), South Africa (36.1 percent), Argentina(35.1), Peru (33.8 percent), Brazil (30.2 percent), Thailand (29.0 percent), Hong Kong (28.8 percent),Taiwan (28.5), and Egypt (26.8).
Rich Mitchell is the Sr. Tags: banks, exports, U.S. economy. IMF Wants US Debt Ceiling Raised Immediately. The June 20th report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to the United States strongly recommended that the debt ceiling be raised because “if the debt ceiling is not raised soon…[it] would have significant global repercussions, given the central role of U. S. Treasury bonds in world markets. ” In announcing the report, John Lipsky (picture, left), acting managing director for the IMF, said: We’re confident that the participants are well aware of the potential risks of a debt default in the U.
S. and will avoid those dangers. It should be self-evident [that] a debt default by the U. S. government debt market would have very serious, far-reaching, dramatic repercussions and that’s why we’re confident that it will be avoided. The IMF reort was full of other suggestions to assist the U.S. in regaining its financial footing, including 1. As noted by The Daily Bell: The IMF and the World Bank work hand in hand. China Says It Will Bail Out Insolvent European Countries | zero hedge. As expected, China is the new IMF. No surprise there. All this means is that China will do everything in its power to prevent the ECB from launching an outright unsterilized monetization episode, which will double the amount of importable inflation (plunging EUR) to hit the Chinese domestic economy, and destabilize the already shaky stability, so critical for the Chinese communist party.
And since the USD and the CNY are pegged, this has the added benefit of devaluaing the CNY instead even more if not against the USD, then against the CNY, which is now importing European sovereign risk and will continue to do so, until China finds itself in the same lock out as half of Europe currently. As for the IMF popularity contest, better known as "who is thst most feminine", it has just been relegated into complete historic obscurity and irrelevance. Which is sad because Lagarde may have actually had something worthwhile to contribute.
Too bad her organization was just been rendered obsolete. Ai Weiwei banned from Twitter for a year. BREAKING: President Barack Obama just sent his FIRST TWEET EVER! Twitter sues twiter.com. Education officials break down Stockton man's door. New Twitter photo service live for employees, rolls out to users next week. 77,000 federal workers paid more than governors. More than 77,000 federal government employees throughout the country — including computer operators, more than 5,000 air traffic controllers, 22 librarians and one interior designer — earned more than the governors of the states in which they work. The findings, from a Congressional Research Service report requested by Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, were released at a time when public workers’ salaries and benefits are under scrutiny across the country as governments try to streamline. CRS reviewed 2009 salary figures, the most recent available, and found 77,057 employees who earned more in annual pay than their respective governors.
Of those workers, 18,351 were doctors — the highest percentage. The second-highest total was for 5,170 air traffic controllers — likely both front-line controllers and their supervisors. In Maryland, 7,283 federal employees — about 7 percent of all full-time federal employees in the state — earned more than Gov. Martin O’Malley’s $150,000 salary. Mr. A new Twitter user is revealing more celebrity gagging orders - Twitter. Reports abound that a new Twitter user going by the name of @Legal_Aids has been publishing yet more claims about High Court gagging orders taken out by high-profile celebrities and politicians.
At the time of writing, the Twitter account in question has well over a thousand followers. The user has been posting fresh claims about supposed gagging orders, with links to news articles and court documents, though many of the ‘revelations’ link to old, existing stories and court documents that don’t name the celebrities in question. Whilst it was reported that Twitter had started the process of removing a lot of the information, the nature of Twitter as a real-time publishing platform means that information has already been retweeted. And this is why Twitter is proving such a difficult platform to manage from a legal perspective. This news follows in the wake of a number of other Twitter-related privacy stories of late.
Here comes Twitter 2.0. This is the first of two articles on likely changes to Twitter. This article focuses on changes to Twitter’s consumer-facing side and the second article focuses on Twitter monetization. Twitter reportedly acquired TweetDeck today, and that’s likely to be the first of many changes. There is a broad consensus that Twitter had stalled out in terms of product innovation, which even creator Jack Dorsey noted upon his return to Twitter as head of product. With Dorsey’s return, we should expect more changes, and very quickly. BusinessInsider recently suggested that Twitter only has 21 million active users, and a lot more people who read of those users’ tweets. Consumers want Twitter to be their source of information. As Twitter becomes the go-to source of information for news, celebrities and more, it’s differentiated from Facebook, which is very focused on what your friends are posting. Add a news view Twitter’s home page should become a news style view of what is going on.
Improve search. What Does Obama Gain by Snubbing Israel? American politics underwent a tectonic shift this week, a change that apparently reflects a huge shift in political money and global power. Breaking with more than half a century of bipartisan U.S. policy on the Middle East, President Barack Obama appeared to turn against our longtime ally Israel. He called for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to be based on Israel retreating to its pre-1967 borders, a boundary to be altered only by "a few swaps" of land between the parties.
To those of us who have stood near the old Syrian cannon emplacements on the Golan Heights looking down on the Galilee and Tiberius, or who have landed at Israel's international airport within 3 miles of the pre-1967 border, or who understand that this would produce an indefensible Israel only 8 miles wide at its narrowest point, Obama's proposal seems bizarre. As recently as 2005, President George W. This week President Obama broke that pledge by our government. Sen. . © 2014 Newsmax. Twitter Adds Email Notifications For Retweets, Favorites. 122358684. A tweet sent during the Senate's Health and Human Services budget debate results in a complaint with the Senate's ethical conduct committee. GOP Sen. Gretchen Hoffman tweeted from the floor that DFL Sen. Barb Goodwin had compared the mentally ill to "idiots and imbeciles. " Goodwin had been decrying cuts to services for the mentally ill in the Legislature's Health and Human Services budget Wednesday.
When informed of the tweet on the 140-character messaging service Twitter late Wednesday night, Goodwin rose to her feet on the Senate floor to complain. Hoffman since suggested she and Goodwin should meet. Goodwin, who is still emotional about the incident, said Friday afternoon they have yet to meet.
In a statement Friday, Hoffman said: ""On Wednesday, May 18, Senator Barb Goodwin referred to people with mental illnesses as idiots and imbeciles in the Minnesota State Senate floor. Here's more background. Here is the complaint: May20 Complaint Here are the tweets: Saudi Arabian Nuha Mohammed Al-Doaifi faces hate crime after spitting on people in Florida Walmart. Brevard County Jail Nuha Mohammed Al-Doaifi allegedly admitted to spitting on several people at a Florida Walmart.
A Saudi Arabian national faces hate crimes charges after allegedly spitting on several people at a Florida Walmart. Nuha Mohammed Al-Doaifi was arrested in Palm Bay after police responded to a 911 call, Florida Today reported Tuesday. The 21-year-old, who was with her 2-year-old son at the time, allegedly admitted to authorities she spat on several people because "Americans are pushing us around. " The incident began, police said, when a woman approached Al-Doaifi when she appeared to be having difficulty entering the Walmart.
"All I was trying to do was tell her she was coming in through the out door," Terry Rakowski told Florida Today. "She was just ramming (her cart) into the door. " The 39-year-old then claims the woman spat in her face. "She just spit all over me," she said. Al-Doaifi then allegedly did the same thing to several others inside the Walmart. Michael Roston: So, not clicking on any li... Ryan Releases statement on Social Security and Medicare report - Manchester Political Buzz. Bluegrass Pundit. TweetDeck and the Holy Grail - Twitter Acquisition Puts an End to That. Twitter banned at royal wedding. Twitter hashtags appearing on Fox shows. Twitter said to be in talks to buy TweetDeck. Syria Feature: Spreading the Uprising Through Facebook and Twitter (Blanford)
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