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A question came up earlier. How do I keep up with twitter? Without a doubt, I do follow over a thousand people. And there are others out there who follow even more people.
The simple answer is, I don’t try to keep up. If something really important comes up, people will retweet it. [...]
Mathew Ingram of GigaOm makes a good point:
“Did Twitter or Facebook cause the Tunisian revolt? No. But they did spread the news, and many Tunisian revolutionaries gave them a lot of credit for helping with the process. Did Twitter cause the revolts in Egypt? No. But they did help activists [...]
Ars Technica’s Nate Anderson wrote,
Even yesterday, it would have been too much to say that blogger, tweeters, Facebook users, Anonymous, and Wikileaks had “brought down” the Tunisian government, but with today’s news that the country’s president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has fled the country, it becomes a more plausible [...]
People are asking what would it take to challenge the Facebook hegemony? This year’s Consumer Electronics Show, where the technology industry assembled to show off what’s in store in Tech for 2011 signaled the death of the PC, and a hint of what could possibly kill off Facebook.
It isn’t readily apparent, [...]
Twitter has a great big problem, and a massive opportunity, so says John Battelle. He wrote,
As many have pointed out (including Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo), Twitter isn’t a friend graph, it’s more of an interest graph, or put another way, an information graph – a massive set of points interconnected by [...]
Twitter staffer Matt Graves’ response was closer to the point, however; he said the company was not thinking about creating such a news service because “it already exists — it’s called Twitter.” In other words, Twitter is already functioning as a news network or wire service, something we’ve pointed [...]
Bill Snyder for infoworld wrote:
The Boy Billionaire, aka Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has done it again. His proposal to turn Facebook messaging into a sort of universal communications platform is probably the worst idea of the year. It’s bad for the privacy of users and for corporate IT, which will have [...]
social media is the art of filtering the noise and amplifying Truth, and Justice
The Twitter blog introduced a new feature on Twitter. It now integrates with Ping.
Starting today Ping, iTunes’ new social network for music, and Twitter are making it even easier for people to share music discoveries with their friends by putting Ping activity, song previews and links to purchase and download [...]
