The sharp eye of Marina Galperina at Animal brings you Eric Fischer’s Twitter traffic map of New York. Galperina writes, “This is New York, with New Yorkers’ trips routed and their geotag density mapped out in “10000 points, 30000 vectors.” What do we learn? Broadway is ‘the spine.’ Well, that does make sense.”
Want people to click your stuff on Twitter? According to Twitter supergenius Dan Zarrella, there’s a science to getting people to click. He knows. He did the research. The biggest surprise for us? Actually, there’s two: First, people actually click those Paper.li links that get posted on Twitter accounts. And second, the best spot to place a link is not at the end of a tweet, but about 25 percent in. Whoa. (ht Poynter)
The sharp eye of Marina Galperina at Animal brings you Eric Fischer’s Twitter traffic map of New York. Galperina writes, “This is New York, with New Yorkers’ trips routed and their geotag density mapped out in “10000 points, 30000 vectors.” What do we learn? Broadway is ‘the spine.’ Well, that does make sense.”
The sharp eye of Marina Galperina at Animal brings you Eric Fischer’s Twitter traffic map of New York. Galperina writes, “This is New York, with New Yorkers’ trips routed and their geotag density mapped out in “10000 points, 30000 vectors.” What do we learn? Broadway is ‘the spine.’ Well, that does make sense.”
Fox was game to experiment with us on something that hadn’t been done before — real-time measurement of audience reaction over Twitter.
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Adam Sharp, manager of government and political partnerships for Twitter in Washington, in a statement to the New York Times. Fox and Twitter Join Forces for Republican Debate The news: During next Monday’s Republican primary debate, Fox News and Twitter will analyze hashtags and feeds (in particular, #answer and #dodge) in an attempt to get real-time metrics on audience views. In turn, Fox will display trends on its Web site and commentators will use the data as they analyze the debate afterwards. (via futurejournalismproject) |
Stop Texting While Walking
“Texting while walking may lack the social stigmas of drunk driving or smoking crystal meth, but it can be just as dangerous,” says filmmaker Casey Neistatin his new short film/PSA/well-mannered, non-ranting rant Texting While Walking.
Social Media in Yemen: Expecting the Unexpected
“…it may seem unimaginable that social media would have an important role to play in Yemen where illiteracy rates reach approximately 45% according to UNDP and where Internet penetration is less than 2%.
However, it is important to note that a large majority of the Yemeni population are youth, by some estimates, close to 60 percent. These youth also represent the majority of users online. While it is important not to exaggerate the impact of this small group of users, it is also important not to disregard their effect.”
