Hurricane Sandy’s effects are still being felt along the East Coast of the United States, with many people turning to Twitter for updates during the storm’s peak.
And despite the many good Samaritans who provided support, updates and help in 140-characters, the top Twitter news story to come out of the storm this week is probably the Twitter troll who misled thousands with his deceptive tweets.
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We're kicking off our upcoming June Social Media Marketing Boot Camp session with a special keynote presentation by Ella Chick (left), the digital producer at Anderson Cooper 360°. She'll discuss how the network uses social media for breaking news and leverages social media to draw attention to organizations and causes. Learn more about our program and register here.
The City of New York sent a subpoena to Twitter in February demanding it release all of Occupy Wall Street protestor Malcolm Harris’ tweets between September 15 and December 31 2011, as well as his email address and any other user information associated with his account.
Well, after a lot of back and forth, it appears Mr. Harris’ information will be released.
Yes, if you’re active online, now is a good time to start worrying.
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New Yorkers are sure a tweet-happy bunch, and their 140 character messages paint a beautiful picture of their city’s loves and hates.
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The City of New York is bringing criminal charges against a key member of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and as part of its case it has subpoenaed Twitter for more than 3 months of his communication.
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Twitter Island exists, and its topography is unlike anything we’ve seen. It has peaks and valleys, and a massive, pointy mountain smack dab in the middle.
OK, so you can’t actually go to Twitter Island, but you can take a look at it on a map and in 3D.
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One might guess that San Francisco is home to the most Twitter users, being the birthplace of the company. Or maybe Tokyo, Japan, a hugely populated city where Twitter is perhaps the second-most-recognized brand.
But no, neither of these cities are the mother hive of Twitter users. Care to take a guess as to which one is?
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Shortly after opening their international office in Dublin, Twitter has made its presence on the East Coast of the US official: by opening an office in the heart of Manhattan.
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Twitter will now have an official New York presence. The company has just opened #TwitterNYC, confirmed by the Twitter Global PR account.
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If rumors are true, Twitter will be taking over Facebook’s former office space at 340 Madison Avenue, New York City, in the next few weeks. And the move couldn’t be any more symbolic if it was planned out by a first-year literature prof.
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You’ve no doubt seen Twitter streams splashed across the ticker at the bottom of CNN newscasts in recent months – and now NBC wants to take this one step further. They’re looking for the most influential Twitter celebrities in the New York and Washington DC areas, to provide ongoing on-the-ground coverage of local news.
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