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Angry Outbursts on Twitter Prompt Lengthy Legal Discussions – NYTimes.com

Posted by: RFM on: October 11, 2009

Angry Outbursts on Twitter Prompt Lengthy Legal Discussions – NYTimes.com.

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Injunction via Twitter

Posted by: RFM on: October 2, 2009

It’s a first!
High court approves injunction via Twitter.
In a ruling on Thursday, a judge in London said that an anonymous Twitter user accused of impersonating a right-wing blogger should cease their activities and reveal their identity to the court. Without any other way of contacting the individual in question, however, the judge agreed that the [...]

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Stats Confirm It: Teens Don’t Tweet

Posted by: RFM on: August 7, 2009

Stats Confirm It: Teens Don’t Tweet.
And here’s a rebuttal of Nielsen’s research which confirms that Teens do, in fact, tweet.

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The 10% Rule applies in almost all walks of life

Posted by: RFM on: June 15, 2009

Just 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content, a Harvard study of 300,000 users found.
Estimates suggest it now has more than 10 million users and is growing faster than any other social network.
However, the Harvard team found that more than half of all people using Twitter updated their page less than [...]

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Funnies

Posted by: RFM on: March 12, 2009

Via Where’sMyJetpack?, this funny has been doing the rounds for a while. I’m posting it (a) because it’s hilarious and (b) because Jetpack wasn’t getting the credit for it from most people posting it.
He acknowledges that he nicked the original image from Getty, then remixed it. Has he violated copyright? I don’t think so. I [...]

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Facebook to redesign again

Posted by: RFM on: March 6, 2009

It seems that FaceBook has finally admitted that its new interface design, launched in July last year and reviled by many users, is no good.
This comes under “forms and conventions” which is another term for “media language”. The side menu, such a fixture on early web sites, and still a feature on popular sites [...]

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A load of Twitter – Times Online

Posted by: RFM on: February 22, 2009

Thanks to Betty for the link to this article in The Times about Twitter. I’ll give you three guesses what the news organisation that wasted millions of dollars buying MySpace thinks about the latest trend in social networking.

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Thoughts on Twitter

Posted by: RFM on: February 20, 2009

I may be wrong about this, but from my (albeit brief) observations of Twitter, it seems like it’s (yet) another form of internet chat.
AOL, which I mentioned a couple of years ago, used to be “notorious” for its chat rooms – either because of the perception that they were full of unsavoury types, spammers, etc., [...]

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Terms and Conditions

Posted by: RFM on: February 18, 2009

The Facebook Blog has some interesting discussion about the controversy surrounding their changed Terms and Conditions. As of this writing, they’ve returned to the previous version, and it seems they’re trying to iron out some of the issues that have been raised (note: by people who have actually read them – have you?).
On the blog, [...]

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How social networking sites might be seized in the event of terror attack

Posted by: RFM on: December 4, 2008

You may be aware that Flickr and Twitter were prime news sources during the recent Mumbai terrorist attacks.
Michael Cross in the Guardian today considers how the government might decide to take control of the likes of Twitter, FaceBook and Flickr in order to control the news source.
It’s traditional in the old-style military coup to seize [...]

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