Twitter is a reporter’s dream, per Janine Gibson (@janinegibson), Editor in Chief of the Guardian US, speaking today at the Social Media Summit presented by the New York Times, Knight Foundation, and the BBC Academy’s College of Journalism. “Twitter is always first with news now,” New York Times President, Mark Thompson, told the Summit, “TV… Continue Reading
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Subscribe to Twitter RSS FeedTwitter housekeeping : Use lists for relationship building
I’ve done a little Twitter housekeeping the last few evenings. I had a couple goals in mind. One to make Twitter work for me as a relationship building tool. If I could see what was being shared by the people I wanted to get to know better, I could engage them and nurture a relationship…. Continue Reading
Twitter turns seven today : Changed the world of so many people vc
Twitter is seven years old today. It’s come an awful long way since most people, including 99.99% of lawyers, thought Twitter the silliest thing in the world. After all, how often could you say your cat just rolled over? And I don’t even like cats. Or how often could you tweet I just had a… Continue Reading
Twitter handle is your identifier
There’s a lot of discussion on the net of late of the need to develop and use a Google+ Profile, also known as an identifier. No question I am working on my Google Profile through my activity on Google+, but your identity of record for now is your Twitter handle. How do I identify you… Continue Reading
75% heads of state on Twitter. Law firm managing partners?
A new survey from the Digital Policy Council (DPC) shows that 75 percent of the world’s heads of state have a presence on Twitter. This from Colleen Taylor (@loyalelectron) at TechCrunch. Of 164 countries surveyed, 123 of them have a head of state that is on Twitter with either with a personal handle or an… Continue Reading
Nielsen-Twitter partnership : A lesson for lawyers and law firms
We’ve come a long ways since the days of watching Ozzie and Harriet and Dick Van Dyke. Rather than just receiving a broadcast show on black and white TV’s with rabbit ear antennae, we’re spontaneously exchanging thoughts about what we’re watching with people across town and across the country. Nielsen, TV’s longstanding provider of metrics, wants in on… Continue Reading
Twitter has 200 million users : 5 reasons that matters to lawyers
Twitter announced this morning that the service now has 200 million monthly unique users. This represents a 40% increase in only 6 months from March, when Twitter announced that after 6 years there were then 140 million users sharing 340 million tweets a day. Why care as a lawyer or law firm? Twitter is what… Continue Reading
Twitter rolls out ability to download your Tweets
Worry no more about losing a history of what you’ve been reading and sharing. Twitter is keeping CEO Dick Costolo’s promise. Per The Next Web’s Martin Bryant (@MartinSFP) Twitter has started rolling out the option to download all of your tweets. An archive link is available on the bottom of your settings for those of… Continue Reading
Local Trends on Twitter : How to set up and why important to lawyers
Last week, Twitter began to bring Trends to 100 more cities around the world. Twitter, in effect ‘surfaces’ the most breaking news in more than 200 locations. Per Twitter software engineer, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis (@kostas), People around the world turn to Twitter to talk about a range of topics – from football to giving thanks to sharing… Continue Reading
Does free speech on social media threaten the security of U.S.?
I never could have imagined that anyone could be raising that question for something like Twitter, which most folks thought fairly amusing a couple years ago. But as the New York Times’ Nick Bilton (@nickbilton) reported this morning, Representative Ted Poe, a Texas Judge turned congressman, along with six other congressman sent a letter to… Continue Reading
Why don’t reporters and bloggers provide Twitter handle in bylines?
I curate content like crazy. I have an insatiable desire to read news, insight, and commentary on the use of the Internet for enhancing one’s reputation and growing your word of mouth reputation. My appetite is fed by an RSS reader and Twitter. My feeds and Twitter lists enable me to see information on marketing,… Continue Reading
False information posted to twitter is quickly vetted
Hurricane Sandy made clear that Twitter is the go to place for breaking news on events and emergencies. But with open-source news comes challenges. One challenge is the accuracy of the information shared. With the low barrier to entry combined with the urge to publish, many people are tempted to break news before checking their… Continue Reading
Twitter replaced traditional news sources during Sandy
I’m a news junkie. Not only do I like following news stories, but now with social media I also like sharing what I am observing in the news with others. During Hurricane Sandy, Twitter was my primary source for news and information. I got first hand reports from people all along the coast through advanced… Continue Reading
Lawyers don’t need more Twitter followers
For lawyers and law firms who look at social media as a broadcast tool they’re apt to want to get as many followers as possible on Twitter. Not so fast writes Eva Abreu (@EvaAbreuNJ) of New Jersey’s Daily Record (@DailyRecord). Do you really need more Twitter followers? Though it seems like you’d want to get… Continue Reading
What lawyers and law firms can learn from KitchenAid’s social media debacle
The Internet is a fast moving and unforgiving place. The appliance maker, KitchenAid (@KitchenAidUSA), learned this after a tasteless tweet regarding the President’s grandmother was sent from their corporate Twitter account during Wednesday night’s presidential debate. The person behind the KitchenAid tweet made the mistake of sending the tweet from the company Twitter account instead… Continue Reading