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Tag Archives: Twitter
How a Phony Tweet Moved the Markets: 71 Characters That Briefly Shook the Financial World
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Early yesterday afternoon East Coast time, someone managed to get access to the Associated Press Twitter account and sent out the following message: "Breaking: Two explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured." That tweet, sent out at … Continue reading
Why Oakland Firefighters Are Tweeting Fire Photos
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I glanced at my Twitter feed the other day and did a double take. Flame was erupting from a house in Oakland in a photograph tweeted by OaklandFireLive. Another photo showed firefighters on the roof of the building, smoke billowing … Continue reading
San Francisco Chronicle Launches Paywall; Reporters Launch Twitter Strike
You can blame Craigslist or Google or blogs like this one. However you look at it, the Internet has disrupted the newspaper business. And the latest changes at the San Francisco Chronicle show that the upheaval isn't over. Over the … Continue reading
Walnut Creek Ballet Company Crowdsources Choreography
It happened with news. It happened with financing. Now a ballet company in Walnut Creek is crowdsourcing its choreography. In a process it dubs the "world's first web ballet," Diablo Ballet is taking suggestions starting Tuesday for a new ballet, … Continue reading
When Twitter Will Let You Have All Your Tweets, and When They Will Give Them to the Government
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took part in a wide-ranging interview today as part of the Online News Association conference in downtown San Francisco. Here's Costolo on… When users would be able to download or export all of their Tweets: "Before the … Continue reading
How Social Media Can Help Recover Stolen Property
Still pining over that bicycle, cell phone or laptop that was stolen from you a few years back? Don't fret – you still may be able to recover your property using the Internet. Police and some theft victims have found … Continue reading
The Year in Social Media
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Some might call the Bay Area the very hub of social media….Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Google+. And some other sites you haven't yet heard of but will make you feel bad next year because everyone will be using them except … Continue reading
Oakland Blogger Being Sued by Former Employer Over Twitter Followers
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An Oakland blogger is being sued by his former employer for continuing to use a Twitter account after he left the company. From CNN: PhoneDog, a website devoted to all things mobile products and services, sued former employee Noah Kravitz … Continue reading
