Social Media Newsfeed: Courtney Love Twitter Trial | Bloop It Video App

[emailonly]{{{ sbox300x250 }}}[/emailonly] Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Courtney Love Tweets After Twitter Trial Win (USA Today) How did Courtney Love celebrate her victory in a landmark Twitter libel case? By returning to the widely popular social media site and tweeting: "we won this epic battle #justice prevails. NBC News Love did not defame her former attorney on Twitter in 2010, a Los Angeles jury decided after three hours of deliberations on Friday. The jury's verdict affirmed that they believed Love wrote the tweet, but that plaintiff Rhonda Holmes did not prove by clear and convincing evidence that the singer knew the statement was false. HollyWood Reporter There were also social media experts who took the witness stand including one hired by Love who said there was no evidence that Love's "bought off" tweet had ever been retweeted. Love herself testified to the jury and expressed disappointment in Holmes after the attorney had once stood by her side when nobody believed that a conspiracy had been perpetuated on Kurt Cobain's estate. Reuters The one-time Oscar nominee for her role in "The People vs. Larry Flynt" was not present in court when the verdict was returned, but she spoke to reporters afterward. "I was really happy for the firm and for me and for everybody that the case could have affected if it had been adverse," she told the local NBC television affiliate outside the courthouse. Reminded that Holmes had sought $8 million in damages, she laughed and said, "If you could find it. It's not in my purse." RollingStone.com Although the jury declined to award Holmes the $8 million in damages she was seeking from Love, Holmes' attorney, Mitchell Langberg, told Reuters that Holmes was pleased her reputation had been saved. Bloop It Lets You Cut YouTube Videos Down to 20 Seconds and Share Them Across the Web (The Next Web) YouTube is the world’s largest video responsibility but, while it is in a league of its own, the Google-owned service hasn’t embraced the short clip style of Instagram, Vine and other popular video apps. Bloop It is an app that is aiming to fill that void by letting users cut YouTube videos down to 20 seconds or less, and share them across existing social networks and its own iOS app. Vine Celebrates its First Year (SocialTimes) In other video news, to celebrate Vine’s first birthday, the Vine team pulled together a collection of some of the most viral videos. To be sure, almost every single one will make you double over with laughter. Oh the stupid things people do. [emailonly]{{{ jodslot01 }}}[/emailonly] Valley of the Blahs: How Justin Bieber’s Troubles Exposed Twitter’s Achilles’ Heel (The New York Times/Bits Blog) At some point, Twitter and the rest of social media became less about wanting to share the news and more about wanting to be the news. Take Justin Bieber, for example. Report: Facebook Referrals Continue Upswing in 4Q (AllFacebook) Facebook saw its referral traffic to a group of more than 200,000 websites with over 250 million monthly unique visitors rise 48.85 during the fourth quarter of 2013 when compared with the third quarter, for an increase of 5.07 percentage reports, according to the latest figures from Shareaholic. Shareaholic said Facebook drove more than twice the traffic of the other seven social networks in its report combined. Maria Miller: Time for a Crackdown on Social Media 'Poison' (The Telegraph) A crack down on the "poison" reaching young people through their use of social media sites will be demanded by the government. The move, led by Maria Miller, the culture secretary, comes after the mother of 15-year-old Tallulah Wilson who threw herself in front of a train after swapping self-harm photographs on the photo-sharing website Tumblr appealed for more action be to be taken. [emailonly]{{{ sbox01 }}}[/emailonly] How to Make Twitter Writer’s Block Work for You, Not Against You (AllTwitter) Whatever your Twitter strategy may be, it probably includes tweeting at least a few times a day. And even if you have the most structured content calendar in the world – detailing tone, topics, themes and resources – you still have to come up with original content on a daily basis. Dodgers Twitter Account Unintentionally Angers Hockey Fans (Yahoo Sports) What The Dodgers were going for was a joke about how a hockey game has never been played in such beautiful weather before. What was received by fans was a perceived insult toward hockey from the hosts of the heavily hyped and historic Stadium Series battle. Hoping That Lightning Strikes Twice, NBC Announces Plans for Live ‘Peter Pan’ Musical (LostRemote) First, networks found success with singing competitions. Then, Fox struck gold with "Glee." Now, NBC will attempt to capitalize on the success of "The Sound of Music Live!," which originally aired on Dec. 5 and averaged 18.47 million viewers with a 4.3 rating in the adults 18-34 demo. [emailonly]{{{ sbox02 }}}[/emailonly]

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Social Media Newsfeed: Courtney Love Twitter Trial | Bloop It Video App

Courtney Love is cleared in the first defamation trial involving Twitter. Bloop It iOS app lets you trim YouTube videos to 20 seconds. These stories, and more, in today's Morning Social Media Newsfeed.

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