Posts tagged twitter

Rage Against The Retweet Machine

Retweet, remix, reblog, bots, and zombie followers. Further proof that attention, and to a greater degree ‘intention’, authenticity and originality are a priceless commodity. Commence turning off your machine in 3, 2, 1…

Twitter Tongues Shows Geographical Multilinguality Of London And NYC - “Twitter truly seems to be an all-knowing entity. If we would like to see how many people are talking about chipmunks in Italy, it could tell us in a second, with even more precise data for regions and cities. Twitter Tongues uses Twitter to show us the languages of tweets sent from London and New York in the summer of 2012, and provides a unique look into these multilingual cities.Playing around with the website application gives a very interesting insight into the different districts that have more or less inhabitants of a certain tongue than others”

Twitter Tongues Shows Geographical Multilinguality Of London And NYC - “Twitter truly seems to be an all-knowing entity. If we would like to see how many people are talking about chipmunks in Italy, it could tell us in a second, with even more precise data for regions and cities. Twitter Tongues uses Twitter to show us the languages of tweets sent from London and New York in the summer of 2012, and provides a unique look into these multilingual cities.Playing around with the website application gives a very interesting insight into the different districts that have more or less inhabitants of a certain tongue than others”

Jenny Holzer's Mom is On Twitter

ANARCHY BEGINS AT HOME BUT IT DOESN’T BEGIN AT THIS HOME, YOU NEED TO INFORM ME OF YOUR PRESSING ONTOLOGICAL REQUIREMENTS BEFORE I GET BACK FROM THE SUPERMARKET, IDENTITY CAN BE A TRICKY THING TO PIN DOWN BUT I AM NOT YOUR MAID…

BBC News Switches From Automated To Human-Made Tweets

“Why @BBCNews has turned off its auto-feed during the day and how other news outlets can learn from the BBC’s evolution to human-powered tweets.”

Hashtags Nomads, Art and Post-Gender Model Sheatheds in “Wink-Wink” Step-And-Repeat Zentai Bodysuits

“The temperament of our generation can be summed up by the hashmark. If the ’90s were full of “quotation marks” indicating irony, a decisive sarcasm and a distance from the opinion of norms, our current climate is dominated by pithy punch lines that summarize the solipsist’s always already uploaded narrative. The hashtag is the redemption of Internet statements—written to be read by everyone you know, obviously. Until they are recycled via a chaotic circuit of retweets, reposts, and reblogs, eventually rendered as vapid as that ubiquitous Facebook prompt: “What’s on your mind?”

Get Shorter: An Open Letter To Twitter

“Twitter is wonderfully economical, and poses a fun challenge akin to writing headlines, but I have one big gripe. Why, with only 140 characters, must we waste seven on http://? Neither Web browsers nor ordinary citizens need this ugly cluster anymore to recognize a URL. When was the last time you saw a print ad that included a link beginning with “http://”?”

Twitter to Change Links and How They Are Displayed

“In an effort to bypass the obscurity of shortened links and to prevent malware and phishing attacks, Twitter has begun the rollout of t.co, its official URL shortener, along with some major changes to how the microblogging platform handles links.”

Thank God, Twitter Killed Justin Bieber!

“Death, taxes, and Justin Bieber trending on Twitter, right? Not anymore, according to Mashable, which is reporting that the 140-character empire has shifted its trending topics algorithm to favor what’s “most breaking” and “immediately popular. The tech blog confirmed that “on Wednesday [Twitter] made updates to improve the relevancy of trending topics” Amen.

Easier Faster Way To Embed Tweets

Twitter yesterday launched a new tool that allows you to easily embed tweets into a website or blog post. The tool, called Blackbird Pie, simply asks you for the URL of a tweet and lets you “Bake it,” meaning you get a preview of how it will look on the Web and a box with the code you need in it.

When History Is Compiled 140 Characters at a Time - “Twitter users now broadcast about 55 million Tweets a day. In just four years, about 10 billion of these brief messages have accumulated. Not a few are pure drivel. But, taken together, they are likely to be of considerable value to future historians. They contain more observations, recorded at the same times by more people, than ever preserved in any medium before.”

When History Is Compiled 140 Characters at a Time - “Twitter users now broadcast about 55 million Tweets a day. In just four years, about 10 billion of these brief messages have accumulated. Not a few are pure drivel. But, taken together, they are likely to be of considerable value to future historians. They contain more observations, recorded at the same times by more people, than ever preserved in any medium before.”

No Twitter for the Rich

“Virginia Heffernan, whose NYT The Medium columns lately have been, uhhh, questionable, has an interesting take on the old MSM “twitter is narcissism blah, blah…” She mentions Bruce Sterling’s talk at SXSW on how the new sign of poverty is, “dependence on ‘connections’ like the Internet, Skype and texting… Only the poor — defined broadly as those without better options — are obsessed with their connections. Anyone with a strong soul or a fat wallet turns his ringer off for good and cultivates private gardens that keep the hectic Web far away. The man of leisure, Sterling suggested, savors solitude, or intimacy with friends, presumably surrounded by books and film and paintings and wine and vinyl — original things that stay where they are and cannot be copied and corrupted and shot around the globe with a few clicks of a keyboard.”