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Topic: Twitter

Did Obama's Twitter Town Hall Miss the Mark? President rolls up his sleeves, but sees low engagement

If you blinked you may have missed it, but President Obama held a small, impromptu Twitter town hall yesterday in Iowa to answer questions and help craft a to-do list…

May 25 2012

Facebook IPO Word-of-Mouth Win for Twitter Sentiment mostly positive for Zuck and company

You may have heard that Facebook had its IPO last week. Of course you did—because Facebook notched 329,565 mentions online last Friday when the company went public, according to an…

May 24 2012

Lawmakers Praise Twitter, but Have Questions Too Social networking service has until June 15 to answer queries

Twitter scored a lot of points in Washington recently when it publicly came out in support of the government's Do Not Track policy recommendation for Web companies. But that doesn't…

May 24 2012

'American Idol' Sets Social TV Records Show tops NBC's 'The Voice' in social chatter by a mile, per Bluefin

Back in the old days, i.e., PF&T (pre-Facebook and Twitter), American Idol fans were still social. Yet instead of status updates and tweets, they did what they could with “the…

May 24 2012

The Social Anatomy of Cory Booker's Misstep Tracking the Newark mayor's social buzz

Exactly how far does a political misstep travel in the world of social media? Thanks to a number of emerging analytics tools—newsrooms, campaigns and their respective staffs can spend time…

May 24 2012

Be Careful What You Tweet, Pin or Check Into—Someone's Watching LocalResponse testing social retargeting tool

In April you may have tweeted how much you hate doing taxes. Sometime later you may have been browsing the Web and noticed ads for TurboTax popping up. That probably…

May 24 2012

Facebook's Headaches Continue to Pile Up With Lawsuits, Allegations After lackluster IPO, now speculation of shady conduct with investment banks

The hits just keep coming for Facebook. After weeks of speculation and media frenzy leading up to its historic IPO, it looks as though the controversy surrounding the social network…

May 23 2012

Nascar, Twitter Turn Hashtags Into Pit Stops Part of larger effort to tie social and sports

The hashtag’s basic function is to serve as a content filter on Twitter. While useful, hashtags can also be uninspired. So Twitter is converting the hashtag into a content destination…

May 18 2012

Do Not Track Gets Support From Twitter FTC tech head discusses tracking and privacy

Twitter has come out in support of Do Not Track, the privacy featured adopted by Web browsers such as Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer that lets users…

May 17 2012

'NYT' Duo of Carr and Stelter Discuss Media Landscape Crowd told to 'always be iterating'

David Carr and Brian Stelter know how to put on a good show. Going for a little more than an hour, the Riggs and Murtaugh buddy duo from the Gray…

May 15 2012

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