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Associated Press Does It Again

The Associated Press never seems to miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. First, the flap about preventing bloggers from snippet-izing its content. Now it has decided that, rather than send traffic from its Twitter account to its own website, it would rather send it to Facebook.

Say what?

The AP obviously has a ton [...]

February 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: content, media, social media | Leave a comment

Is Twitter Cherry-Picking its Metrics?

Concerns have recently been voiced about Twitter’s user base: churn is over 90%, and the average number of tweets sent by a Twitter user is, er, 1.

Twitter, however, is undaunted by such stats, and, instead, promotes the fact that its monthly number of tweets continues to climb ever higher:

But what is the value [...]

February 10th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: social media, startups | Leave a comment

Twitter Downed by Digital Mujahideen?

The latest DNS attack may have been the result of an Iranian hacker group calling itself The Iranian Cyber Army.

December 18th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: social media | Leave a comment

Being Held Liable for Tweets

Courtney Love is being sued by a fashion designer for allegedly criticizing her on Twitter. Among other things, Love apparently tweeted that the designer had a history of cocaine use.

Smart.

Just because the medium may be novel, defamation can still be shown in such cases. Despite that, observers are still trying to sort out [...]

November 17th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: blogs, legal, social media | Leave a comment

Dilbert Tricks His Boss Into Twitter

Face it: Dilbert rocks.

Dilbert Tricks His Boss Into Twitter .

var addthis_pub = ‘bluescreen’;
var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘facebook, twitter, myspace, digg, email, more’;

October 5th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: social media | Leave a comment
 
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