2012 will be the year that the paywall finally proves, or disproves itself. As more papers put up a paywall on their online editions, I take a look at who’s making it work, and who isn’t…
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The Associated Press have issued an update to their social media guidelines, this time focusing specifically on Twitter and how journalists should correct erroneous tweets. But have they missed a trick by not focusing on Facebook?
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A creative brand agency in the UK have launched a campaign that sees them eating sweets every time they are sent a message on Twitter. It comes with a video of the machine that feeds them the sweets but is it all copied from a similar campaign launched this time last year?
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Judging by the huge response to yesterday’s post “How Twitter Alienated me With New Tweetdeck”, Niall doesn’t seem to be the only one bothered by the recent changes made to Tweetdeck, and today it was announced that the dashboard’s main competitor, Hootsuite, had reached 3 million sign ups…
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As Twitter continues to revamp the ways on which you can access the site they are annoying users who have been with the site for years. While they have made many improvements the way in which they have changed Tweetdeck in particular means that I am practically no longer using the service…
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Beepl , a Q&A platform that links into social media accounts, launched publicly today. Established in 2011, Beepl aims to get questions answered by matching topics to users; the Beepl users themselves provide the answers to another user’s question, with Beepl stating, “It’s our mission to surface the expertise that each of us has…
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It’s not just businesses and individuals who use and benefit from social media, whole nations are now getting in on the action, promoting themselves in new ways. Sweden’s Twitter feed was widely reported on over the weekend, as it is being used as the main front of a project called ‘Curators of Sweden’…
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Rupert Murdoch is causing a stir on Twitter again, this time by slamming Google for effectively supporting anti-piracy. The rant is causing a bit of a stir among media, as the SOPA argument heats up
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Every week, there are thousands of stories about social media and technology posted online, and with all that information out there, it can be hard to find all the best content. So we’ve done all the hard work for you and curated the top 25 stories that you simply have to read this weekend…
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When we think of retweets, we think interesting articles someone found, witty or funny comments made, links to videos and other pieces of information deemed interesting. Usually when something is retweeted we enjoy it for what it is before moving on to the next one. However there is a extra benefit from being…
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It’s only been two months since LinkedIn relaunched its card scanning app CardMunch, but already it’s been a success as it’s scanned over 2 million different cards or more accurately one million since August 2011. While some may have seen it as a somewhat redundant feature since business cards….
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A study has found that your Facebook behaviour closely mirrors your real-life personality, ReadWriteWeb reports. The study from the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, entitled “Manifestations of Personality in Online Social Networks: Self-Reported Facebook-Related Behaviors…
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