Cornell researchers are “disappointed” with the lack of political voices on Twitter. “Social scientists’ analysis of 290,119,348 tweets from 193,522 ‘politically engaged’ Twitter users during the 2012 presidential campaign conventions and debates […]
Twitter, Tibet, More: Short Tuesday Buzz, June 10, 2104
Interesting: Amazon is going to start offering subscription payment services for businesses and startups ala PayPal. The Law Library of Congress has a new report about country-specific restrictions on genetically-modified organisms. It’s […]
Twitter, App, Hashtags, More: Sunday Buzz, May 11, 2014
Indiana University researchers have developed a tool to try to tell whether a Twitter user is a bot or not. You have to authorize your Twitter account to use it, but once […]
Twitter, Instapaper, Wayback Machine, More: Saturday Morning Buzz, May 10, 2014
UGA Study: celebrities on Twitter can be credible brand endorsers. “Celebrities with a high number of Twitter followers and who are perceived positively in the public eye have the potential to be […]
LOC, Fonts, Tweets, More: Tuesday Buzz, May 6, 2014
This is a very, very tough week at work, so updates will be sparse. From Quartz: Why LinkedIn is Morphing from a Social Network into an Online Newspaper. “While more than 300 […]