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Tag Archives: Twitter
Love It or Hate It, Twitter Turns Five
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Twitter, the micro-blogging service you either love or love to hate, turns five today. It was March 21, 2006 when Twittr (there was no "e" in the name back then) co-founder Jack Dorsey sent out the first tweet: "Just setting … Continue reading
Wednesday Weeklies: What Will Twitter Deal Really Cost?; Willie Brown as Lobbyist
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This week's new articles from the alternative weeklies… Behind the tweets (San Francisco Bay Guardian) A Guardian review of the voluminous e-mails and other public records behind the proposed Mid-Market tax exclusion zone shows how public officials and private power … Continue reading
Follow Tsunami News on Twitter
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More on Twitter: KQED News Twitter KCBS KGO Radio Twitter List of Twitter feeds for Hawaii, Japan, and general quake
Wednesday Weeklies: SF Supes Want Competition for Trash Pick-Up; Behind the Twitter Tax Deal
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This week's new articles from the alternative weeklies… Supes Want to Rescind Law that Bans Competition in SF Trash Collection (SF Weekly) Does Recology have a right to pick up San Francisco's trash forever? Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and David Campos … Continue reading
It's Koo—Tweets Regional, Y'All
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By way of our colleague Julia, the Associated Press on American dialects that show up on our favorite 140-character messaging service ("Twitter is full of regional 'accents,' study finds"): Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University examined 380,000 messages from Twitter during … Continue reading
Twitnovel Launches; You Expect 'War and Tweets'?
@danbrekke Oh: URL for D. Sovern Twitnovel, 'TweetHeart'? It's http://tweetheartnovel.com/index.html. He begins posting actual fiction @ 9:30 a.m. PST. 1 minute ago Favorite Reply Delete » @danbrekke Still, hats off to Twitnovelist Doug Sovern: Communicating in 140-character messages takes focus, … Continue reading
Silicon Valley Zeitgeist: Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter Year-End Lists
It used to be that people complained that New York and Hollywood were setting the cultural agenda. But now it's the Silicon Valley search and social media companies that seem to dictate what's hot and what's not. Not, however, through … Continue reading
Blog Beat: Cesar Chavez Street Redesign; 'Citizen Twain' Synopses; Twitter Worth $4 Billion?
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The Cesar Chavez Street redesign plan is sailing toward approval, reports Streetsblog San Francisco. The Informant has posted Rina Palta's radio piece recounting just how California's prisons have gotten so overcrowded. Gary Kamiya is finally done with his chapter-by-chapter synopsis … Continue reading
