New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets
by Bill Heil and Mikolaj Piskorski | 2:15 PM June 1, 2009 Twitter has attracted tremendous attention from the media and celebrities, but there is much uncertainty about Twitter’s purpose. Is Twitter a communications service for friends and groups, a means of expressing yourself freely, or simply a marketing tool? We examined the activity of a random sample of 300,000 Twitter users in May 2009 to find out how people are using the service. Of our sample (300,542 users, collected in May 2009), 80% are followed by or follow at least one user. Although men and women follow a similar number of Twitter users, men have 15% more followers than women. Even more interesting is who follows whom. These results are stunning given what previous research has found in the context of online social networks. Twitter’s usage patterns are also very different from a typical on-line social network. At the same time there is a small contingent of users who are very active. i Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan.
Twitter Handbook for Teachers
iPhone OS 3.0 Beta já está localizado para o português; novidade
Publicamos aqui no site há um par de horas as primeiras screenshots do iPhone OS 3.0 Beta. Agora, trazemos outras que mostram que o sistema, mesmo em fase de testes, já está totalmente localizado para o português. Quem nos enviou as imagens foi nosso amigo Breno “MacMasi” Masi, da desenvolvedora brasileira FingerTips. Nestas novas snaps, você confere o ícone do Voice Memo (Gravador) na Home Screen do iPhone, um alerta de MMS, o copy & paste funcionando no novo teclado horizontal do aplicativo Mail, o indicativo da versão instalada (build 7A238j), entre outras. Outra novidade é que o iPhone OS 3.0 agora suporta múltiplas contas do MobileMe, incluindo contatos e calendários. No iTunes, já aparece a opção de sincronizar anotações do iPhone (funciona tanto em Macs quanto em PCs): Uma dúvida pessoal: o iTunes já mostrava o número de telefone (borrei na screenshot, mas dá pra ver onde fica) antes para iPhones nacionais? Go, Apple! Muito obrigado pela sua ajuda.
HOW TO: Manage Social Media Goals and Expectations
You have insightful tweets, write amazing blog posts, and can make a viral video like it's nobody's business. So why don't you have 500,000 followers, 50,000 views per video, and your own personal social media army? People have been setting some strange, unrealistic, and possibly misguided expectations recently in social media. While you might believe that you're only worth something in social media if you have a huge audience, the simple fact is that it's not true. Popularity game vs. real value The desire for social media popularity has been a growing phenomenon in recent years. Yet while it's true that more attention can mean more shareability in general, you aren't going to gain anything from people that don't truly care about what you have to say. So the first step in managing your social media expectations is this: don't get caught up in the popularity game. Avoiding pitfalls This is what can happen when you become frustrated... Control your emotions. Setting goals Why set a goal?
What is Twitter’s Vision?
Mark D. Drapeau, Ph.D., is a Washington, D.C.-based biological scientist, government consultant, and frequent writer on social media and society. Perhaps overshadowed by Super Bowl chatter, the past weekend was also noteworthy for a thoughtful Wall Street Journal blog post by Chris Anderson called, The Economics of Giving it Away. What is Twitter? Just as Jeff Jarvis writes about the simplicity of Google being empowering, so it is with Twitter. But sites like Twitter need a business plan to survive in the long term, and at the moment they don't have one, despite the numerous aforementioned discussions. Right now, Twitter is like the Wild West, where "frontier theory" applies (thanks to Kim Taipale for pointing this metaphor out). 1. Technologies like Twitter are moving from "stage one" to "stage two" of the decentralized communications frontier. Finding a Vision for Twitter A likely vision for Twitter is for it to be a premiere micro-sharing platform. Cartoon courtesy of Geek & Poke
OUseful Info: Twittershow - Modifying Feedshow to Provide Twitte
Twittershow - Modifying Feedshow to Provide Twitter Powered Presentations Over the weekend, I came across Twitter presenter, a proof of concept way fo using a Twitter feed as the basis for a presentation inspired by a tweet from @ewanmcintosh: "Can one present by Twit?" The feedshow link presenter takes and RSS feed in, typically from a social bookmarks site, and uses it to provide a set of links to web pages that are to be talked around during a presentation. I've been meaning to add an option to feedshow that lets you preface a displayed web page with a comment, provided either by the title or description element of the input feed, so as a step on the way to that, here's a quick proof of concept sideshoot from feedshow - Twittershow (or should that be TweetShow, or even Tweeshow?!
Herbert Kohl and the enigma of not-learning
August 1st, 2007 | Category: Learning | Comments are closed “To agree to learn from a stranger who does not respect your integrity causes a major loss of self. The only alternative is to not learn and reject the stranger’s world.” - Herbert Kohl, from “I Won’t Learn from You” American educator Herbert Kohl’s “I Won’t Learn from You” is a compelling essay about the complex relationship between a learner’s social context and their motivation to learn. This piece was one of the first, and most important, texts of critical pedagogy I read for my Bachelors of Education and I’ve come to believe it has far reaching application far beyond the classroom. Beginning with evocative anecdotes and reflections of his personal and professional experiences of teaching and learning, Kohl outlines the tensions that emerge when a learner consciously refuses to engage. We can all remember a teacher we loved just as easily as we remember a teacher we didn’t trust. We’re all “not learners”
Sunday Morning : jQuery + Google Translation
