Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

The closing moments of Super Bowl XLVI, which saw the New York Giants come from behind to edge the New England Patriots 21-17 with a last-minute touchdown, were so dramatic that they set a new tweets per second (TPS) record on Twitter. The final three minutes of the Super Bowl saw Twitter users firing off [...]

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

It’s the end of the first term for the Obama administration, and the end of an era for the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Aneesh Chopra, the White House’s first-ever chief technology officer, has announced his resignation.

It’s no wonder that people turn to Twitter for tech support. In the heat of a frustrating moment, it is much easier to fire off a quick question on Twitter than to wait on hold for an operator. But how effective is the microblogging site as a customer service tool? Here’s how Spotify, LinkedIn, Pinterest [...]

Unless you’ve been hiding in your IP-hidden digital cave for the last few weeks, you’re probably aware that the Internet is currently rife with protests for SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act.  Critics from Silicon Valley and various technology companies around the world blacked out their sites to protest the bill, which effectively would give [...]

I thought I had Twitter all figured out.  Then I decided to use the micro-blogging site to conduct a real-time Q&A with an author while unsuspecting followers watched.  How clever, I told myself.  How madcap! How wrong I was.  But here, tweeters, is how to do it right:

Time to dust off the old Encyclopedia Britannica, because all your online facts are about to go unchecked. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has confirmed that the free online encyclopedia will shut down on Wednesday, January 18 in protest of the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), two anti-piracy bills that are currently [...]

A growing trend over the past 2 years, if not longer, is the use of Twitter chats. Twitter chats are sometimes spontaneous, but are typically organized as reoccurring events. What defines a Twitter Chat from the general back and forth tweets in your Twitter stream is the use of a common hash tag (for example [...]

Not everyone is happy with Google’s decision to integrate its social network, Google+ with its popular search engine.  Not long after Google announced Search plus Your World in a blog post, Twitter general counsel Alex Macgillivray fired off this tweet in response: The biggest complaint seems to be that Google+ would be able to push [...]

By now you may be sick of all the 2011-wrap up posts, videos and infographics that are going around, but trust me—you won’t want to miss this one. YouTuber Jeremiah Warren has put together an awesome video recap of 2011, told entirely through Tweets.

“WTF?! I wanted an iPad. WTF?! I wanted a car.” So begins the latest hit YouTube song from Jonathan Mann, who has been writing, recording, producing and uploading a song (and a video) every day for more than 1000 days. The song’s lyrics are made up of disgruntled tweets from people who are pissed off that they didn’t get an iPhone, iPad or car for Christmas.