Cards Introduction With Twitter Cards, you can attach rich photos, videos and media experiences to Tweets, helping to drive traffic to your website. Simply add a few lines of markup to your webpage, and users who Tweet links to your content will have a “Card” added to the Tweet that’s visible to their followers. The Tweet embedded below shows a Player Card along with 140 characters: Drive engagement from your Tweets Top Twitter Analytics Tools With hundreds of add-on tools, Twitter certainly has plenty of ways you can analyze its data. I set out to find the best tools that I would recommend for you to track and compare your own Tweets, as well as examine the growth of followers and when you actually send out your 140-character missives. My two faves are TweetStats and Twittercounter. As you are resting from your Thanksgiving feast, you might want to try them out, along with several others that I will show you.
Improve Your Brand Monitoring Results With Twitter Search Operators – Better at Marketing Twitter gives us the tools to make our searches specific (and useful). Monitoring Twitter for mentions of our brand is just one way to keep tabs on what people are saying on Twitter. People talk about or to us indirectly, too, in other ways than using @OurBrandName. How do we find these other mentions of our brand? Generic too-broad searches won’t work; we can’t (and won’t) spend the time to sift through it all each day. Luckily, Twitter gives us the tools to be very specific about our searches on its network. Kari Henley: Are Facebook Friends "Real" Friends? Well, I have to say one thing - HuffPost readers rock! This is one spirited group and thanks to everyone who joined in on the lively debate about "Facebook and Kids" last week. Clearly there is a lot of energy, pent up emotion, generational gaps and strong opinions regarding the "tipping point" of Facebook and other social networking sites. I stumbled into a much bigger lion's den than I imagined! Today I'd like to explore why social networking in general has touched a collective nerve. Do sites like Facebook stand as viable communities, and are the people on your home page "real friends?"
France's censorship demands to Twitter are more dangerous than 'hate speech' (updated below) Writing in the Guardian today, Jason Farago praises France's women's rights minister, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, for demanding that Twitter help the French government criminalize ideas it dislikes. Decreeing that "hateful tweets are illegal", Farago excitingly explains how the French minister is going beyond mere prosecution for those who post such tweets and now "wants Twitter to take steps to help prosecute hate speech" by "reform[ing] the whole system by which Twitter operates", including her demand that the company "put in place alerts and security measures" to prevent tweets which French officials deem hateful. This, Farago argues, is fantastic, because - using the same argument employed by censors and tyrants of every age and every culture - new technology makes free speech far too dangerous to permit:
Share Bookmarklet Updated on Wed, 2014-02-12 17:33 Overview The Share Bookmarklet makes it easy for you to share any webpage on Twitter, even if there isn’t a Tweet Button. Twitter Etiquette: In A Little More Than 140 Characters Hello. My Name Is Jamie And I Am A Twitter Addict. I want to be upfront with you: I’ll admit it, I’m a bit of a Twitter snob. I don’t mean to be. It’s just that I use the service so often and can’t help but see what’s wrong with it, or how people are misusing it. Grabbing Twitter Search Results into Google Refine And Exporting Conversations into Gephi How can we get a quick snapshot of who’s talking to whom on Twitter in the context of a particular hashtag? Here’s a quick recipe that shows how… First we need to grab some search data.
Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - Stephen Marche Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she died. According to the Los Angeles coroner’s report, she lay dead for the better part of a year before a neighbor and fellow actress, a woman named Susan Savage, noticed cobwebs and yellowing letters in her mailbox, reached through a broken window to unlock the door, and pushed her way through the piles of junk mail and mounds of clothing that barricaded the house. Upstairs, she found Vickers’s body, mummified, near a heater that was still running.
In praise of Vallaud-Belkacem, or why not to tolerate hate speech on Twitter If you're looking to diminish your faith in the future of humanity, a good place to start is always the left rail of Twitter's website, whose list of "trending topics" details the most popular inanities of the day. But in France, this December, the Justin Bieber hashtags dropped down the hit parade and a much more sinister one topped the charts. If you clicked #SiMonFilsEstGay ("If my son is gay"), which trended for days, you could see thousands upon thousands of violently homophobic messages – suggesting that young people who come out should be imprisoned, castrated, murdered … you name it. And that was not the only hateful hashtag of the month. There was also #SiMaFilleRamèneUnNoir ("If my daughter brings a black man home"), which brought together juvenile humor and appalling racism.
Any account with a blue verified badge on their Twitter profile is a verified account. by agnesdelmotte Aug 23