Hitler reacts to SOPA.
That map you see above isn’t a picture of the earth, seen from space. Rather, it’s a map of the locations attached to every tweet and Flickr photo. What results is a remarkable picture of how each service has spread across the globe.
Infographic Of The Day: Using Twitter And Flickr Geotags To Map The World | Co.Design
Internet 2011 in numbers - Social Media
- 2.1 billion – Internet users worldwide.
- 800+ million – Number of users on Facebook by the end of 2011.
- 225 million – Number of Twitter accounts.
- 100 million – Number of active Twitter users in 2011.
- 70 million – Total number of WordPress blogs by the end of 2011.
- 39 million – The number of Tumblr blogs by the end of 2011.
White House Terrorism Strategy Blames Social Media for Advancing “Extremist Narratives”
The White House released a terrorism strategy that claims Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks aid in “advancing violent extremist narratives” and should be monitored by the government.
Um….
You might recall in June 2010, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed publicly that its agents create accounts on social-networking sites in some situations. Plus, DHS’s National Operations Center “will monitor activities on the social-media sites” via search engines, aggregators, and other tools. “The NOC will gather, store, analyze, and disseminate relevant and appropriate de-identified information to federal, state, local, and foreign governments, and private sector partners…”
The Electronic Frontier Foundation found documents that DHS officials were sending “friend” requests to people applying for U.S. citizenship.
Sigh.
Fast-tracking Twitter tips to BreakingNews: We’re excited to announce a new feature that allows news organizations to fast-track news tips straight to BreakingNews.com and potentially, @breakingnews on Twitter.
Here’s how it works. Once we’ve whitelisted a news organization’s Twitter account, appending @breakingnews or #breakingnews anywhere in a tweet will pop it in front of our editors on this page. If it’s a breaking story with national or regional interest — and it’s the first we’ve seen of it — we’ll publish it on the BreakingNews.com home page, our three mobile apps and potentially on Twitter and Facebook, too. The bigger the story, the more places it goes.
For the news organization, that means a burst of traffic and perhaps a few new Twitter followers. For us, it helps BreakingNews find stories faster (we receive a daily avalanche of Twitter replies and mentions) and give credit where credit is due. All we ask is that the tips stick to original breaking stories that have a regional or national interest. Our goal is to link the source of breaking stories, not rewritten copies of it.
Nearly 40 local TV stations (of all affiliations) and newspapers who have opted into the program. If you’re a news organization that routinely covers breaking news of regional interest, send us a note (to the editor) with the Twitter handle on this contact form.Smart way to leverage the network.
Twitter's Guide for Newsrooms
The most important part to read is their guide for reporting and how journos are using Twitter to find sources.
Jake Tapper from ABC News:
The way [Twitter has] been most useful is in terms of following people. I’ve been able to use it for reporting and to find sources. Last year when a health insurance company raised its premiums in California and it affected thousands of people, I didn’t know how to reach any of them, so I sent a Tweet out to my followers: “Is there anybody out there who is a customer of Anthem Blue cross who got their insurance premiums raised?”
@lemoneyes tweeted me that she had and so I followed her. I got her information through DM and then emailed her, we verified her situation and then we sent a camera crew to her. The next morning she was on ABC’s Good Morning America. There is no way I could have done that before.
Liquid media will liquefy all solid media.
…those of us who are in the link building business need to recognize and respect the distinct culture of social media networks. Social media is not there to be exploited for SEO.
Don’t ask “what can social media do for my links”. That’s just spam 2.0.
Instead, ask, “what can I do to contribute to the conversation aside from link drops”. If you have nothing to add but company and/or client links, frankly, your wasting your time, and ours.
Quote from Eric Ward
Todd Heim at SearchEngineJournal.com also says:
“When it was finally confirmed that Twitter & Facebook links pass SEO value for search engine rankings, I must admit: I cringed a little. It’s not that I didn’t see it coming. It’s just: now that they have confirmed for everyone what many have been predicting for years, even the doubters are rushing to incorporate social media into their link building strategy. And that worries me.”
Read more here (with handy tips to avoid the pitfalls of link building in social media)
I’m afraid of Facebook, people can find you through it. They could have complaints and I don’t want to be hunted down by the Facebook people.
Students use Facebook to oust teacher’s blog
After finding their teacher’s blog, these students were appalled. So they did what they always do — they put it on Facebook.
The blog, called “Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?” had several questionable comments about students and co-workers. One post revealed what she really wanted to say to parents:
* “Concerned your kid is automaton, as she just sits there emotionless for an entire 90 minutes, staring into the abyss, never volunteering to speak or do anything.”
* “Too smart for her own good and refuses to play the school ‘game’ such that she’ll never live up to her true potential here.”
* “A complete and utter jerk in all ways. Although academically OK, your child had no other redeeming qualities.”
* “Just as bad as his sibling. Don’t you know how to raise kids?”
* “Shy isn’t cute in 11th grade; it’s annoying. Must learn to advocate for himself instead of having Mommy do it.”
* “Seems smarter than she actually is.”
Oops…
via: worldshaker
