Law firms have begun to advertise on Twitter. Below is a screen shot of my Twitter home page from Friday depicting the ‘Promoted’ Twitter acount of Strasburger & Price (@Strasburger), a full-service Texas law firm founded in 1939 known nationally for its litigation and business capabilities. Businesses, law firms included, may advertise on Twitter in… Continue Reading
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Subscribe to Twitter RSS FeedLawyers guide to Twitter language and acronyms
One of the most difficult parts of using twitter is condensing your thoughts into 140-chracters or less. Although often complained about, the 140-character limit is Twitter’s core feature and differentiates it from other social networking sites. On top of the character limit, Twitter has a language of it’s own. The abbreviations and lingo are helpful… Continue Reading
Who’s Tweeting live from courtroom in the Apple v Samsung trial?
The month-long Apple-Samsung Patent trial started a couple days ago and will continue for nearly a month. To get the live blow by blow directly from the courtroom follow theses reporters journalists live tweeting from the courtroom. Howard Mintz (@hmintz), legal affairs reporter at Mercury News in Silicon Valley is live blogging the trial and tweeting personally…. Continue Reading
How I would teach lawyers to use Twitter?
I just shared statistics on how fast Twitter usage is growing. 15% of Americans are using Twitter with 8% using it daily. Those numbers double those of last year, and quadruple the year before. Twitter is not just for idle chit chat, but it is becoming a key medium for how we receive news and… Continue Reading
Twitter usage soaring : Lawyers need to get on board
Per a recent Internet study done by Pew Research Center Twitter use continues to soar, Some 15% of online adults use Twitter as of February 2012, and 8% do so on a typical day. Although overall Twitter usage has nearly doubled since the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project first asked a stand-alone Twitter question… Continue Reading
Could Flipboard lose Twitter?
Lauren Indvik (@laureni) asks at Mashable, “Is Flipboard About to Lose Access Twitter?” Her question was prompted by Mike McCue, Flipboard Founder, resigning from Twitter’s board of directors today. AllThingsD‘s Kara Swisher reported in May that McCue had approached Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and co-founder Jack Dorsey about stepping down. The reason? “McCue’s growing feeling that… Continue Reading
Twitter outage disrupts flow of news and information
Twitter went down for two to three hours yesterday, the second outage in less than a month. The issue arose when, as shared at Huffington Post by Raphael Satter (@razhael), one data center failed and another that was to provide redundancy also failed. I’ve come to recognize that technology is not perfect, there are failures. The impact of Twitter failing for… Continue Reading
Morgan Stanley takes to social media in baby steps
Alexandra Scaggs (@alexandrascaggs) of Dow Jones reported Friday that Morgan Stanley has started putting its economists on Twitter to provide real-time reviews. David Greenlaw, the bank’s chief U.S. fixed-income economist, used the social-media platform to express his views on Friday’s U.S. jobs report in real time. In a string of tweets starting five minutes after the release,… Continue Reading
Tweets no longer on LinkedIn : I like the result of social media turf war
Ryan Roslansky (@ryos), LinkedIn’s Head of Content Products, announced on Friday that Tweets will no longer automatically be displayed on LinkedIn. Since 2009 LinkedIn users had been able to share their tweets with their connections on LinkedIn via the Twitter interface directly. This could be done automatically by choosing an option on LinkedIn to have all of your Tweets fed… Continue Reading
Buffer provides Twitter analytics for law firms
I’m using the Buffer app more and more to share news and information on Twitter. With Bufffer I can read content when convient for me and then have my tweets of that content shared when convenient for my Twitter follwers to see my Tweets. For me this means reading at night during Seinfeld re-runs or… Continue Reading
Daily Twitter use of Americans doubles in last year
Pursuant to a recent survey on Twitter usage from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project the number of adults who use Twitter every day has doubled since May, 20011. Some 15% of online adults use Twitter as of February 2012, and 8% do so on a typical day. Although overall Twitter usage… Continue Reading
Lawyers more apt to trust Twitter than Facebook?
Facebook may be experiencing explosive growth, but time and again I hear from lawyers that they find Twitter more professional and that they don’t trust Facebook when it comes to privacy. New York Times columnist, Nick Bilton (@nickbilton) compared Twitter and Facebook to “The Tortoise and the Hare,” in a piece last week. To run… Continue Reading
Buffer : Can it improve my use of Twitter?
I use Twitter. Religiously. I have a veracious appetite to read, consume, digest, and share information. Whether it’s coming from the mainstream media, blogs, books, or from things people have said online or offline. I like learning and I like sharing what I am learning with the world – or at least my little slice… Continue Reading
Be real : Use your own name on Twitter, not a brand name
Todd Wasserman, Business Editor for Mashable, (@toddwasserman) makes a strong case that business people should combine their personal and professional profiles on Twitter. Sure there’s the PhoneDog case where an employer is suing an ex-employee to get the ex-employees personal Twitter handle which they used during their work at PhoneDog. Though the Court has denied… Continue Reading
You must be authentic and tweet for yourself : Twitter executive
Mike Brown (@mikeisbrown), Director of Corporate Development at Twitter, speaking at the CITE Conference in San Francisco today, made clear Twitter is not something you have another person handle for you. As reported by Lucas Mearian (@lucasmearian) of Computerland, Brown told the audience: I think whether you’re a brand or a marketer or a small business… Continue Reading