Think you could sum up your job description in 140 characters?
Recently, the Wisconsin Law Journal posted a job opening for a full-time reporter on JournalismJobs.com, and used just 134 characters to do so.
In the same spirit of brevity, SHIFT Communications started compiling an entire page of tweet-length job listings, both at the agency itself and its clients.
A newly-developed Dutch program called TweetGenie has adapted the age-old (so to speak) carnival game of guessing a contestant’s height, weight, or birthday to the digital age.
TweetGenie can guess any Twitter user’s age and gender based solely on tweets, without a name or photo.
How do you get more followers on Twitter?
It’s the age-old question, and while the number of followers that a profile has on Twitter is not always a true indication of status (and certainly quality), brands hoping to use the micro-blogging social network to raise awareness, drive traffic and generate sales will always be looking to proactively grow their audience.
This is particularly true for small businesses. What can and should they be doing to attract relevant followers on Twitter?
Which social media sites are small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using for business?
Facebook (as usual) leads the way, with 19 percent of SMEs favouring this platform, ahead of LinkedIn (14 percent), blogs (13 percent) and Twitter, with the latter being used by just 4 percent of these firms.
In our earlier post on “tweetblocking being the new junkpunch on Twitter” we introduced you to a watchdog handle, @FixWMATA, that was blocked by the publicly funded entity it was watchdogging: the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
And we’re wondering if publicly funded entities should be allowed to block watchdog groups – or anybody for that matter – on Twitter.
And we’re not the only ones asking.
If you ever want to send a solid “eff you” to someone on Twitter you have a few options, depending on the amount of time you want to invest. From the most time-consuming to the least: You can create a troll account and harass them; send #subtweets directed at them and ignore their replies; or you can block them.
This last one might seem like a pointless action as it’s so simple to get around, but it’s actually not only the most time-friendly course to take, but it’s also the ultimate junkpunch because it stops them dead in their tracks. (Unless they’re crazy stalkers, then it probably just makes them angry enough to find you ‘in real life.’)
Here’s why:
There are consequences for what you tweet – particularly if you live in Bahrain. A court there just sentenced six people to jail time for posting insults.
Yeah, you’d probably be looking at a life sentence for the stuff YOU tweet. I know I won’t be visiting that lovely locale any time soon!
Twitter does what it can to protect users’ privacy, requiring governments to go through legal channels to obtain private information – but some governments aren’t fond of rules.
If you live in Saudi Arabia, it seems your tweets aren’t being intercepted yet – but it’s really only a matter of time. And if you don’t live in Saudi Arabia, don’t be fooled into thinking your safe. Just because other governments aren’t as (unwisely) attempting to recruit folks to intercept tweets and getting publicly busted for it, doesn’t mean they’re NOT doing it.
Yes, I took my paranoia pill today.
Back in December, Twitter teamed up with ESPN and Ford to provide embedded replays from football games in posts sent via Twitter.
The replays, which each began with a short promotional clip for the Ford Fusion, were selected by ESPN’s college football editors and promoted by both ESPN and Ford to people not following Ford or ESPN on Twitter, but solid potential followers based on the people they follow and what they tweet about.
The partnership was evidently a success (in fact, ESPN said the video highlights were seen more than 7 million times), because Twitter and ESPN are amping up their joint efforts.
Our Wednesday series Twitticisms is back, featuring the jocular jests and witty wisecracks of Twitter’s funniest.
Cue the laugh track:
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