This flu season you’ve probably seen a number of friends on social media talking about symptoms. New research from Brigham Young University says such posts on Twitter could actually be helpful to health officials looking for a head start on outbreaks. The study sampled 24 million tweets from 10 million unique users. They determined that [...]
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Study Examines How News Spreads On Twitter
Nearly every major news organization has a Twitter account these days, but just how effective is the microblogging website at spreading news? That’s the question University of Arizona professor Sudha Ram set out to answer in a recent study of a dozen major news organizations that use the social media website as one tool for [...]
What happens to your online presence when you die?
Most people assume that a family member or another designee will handle our physical belongings and liquid assets when we die. But what about our online affairs? Who will respond to important emails, pay our online bills and deactivate our Facebook account so it stops notifying friends every time a birthday comes around? In the [...]
The Controversy of Sweden’s Twitter Feed
Recently, the country of Sweden has taken a unique approach to Twitter. In short, the country is picking a new citizen each week to run their twitter account – @Sweden. The government initiative entrusts the country’s Twitter account to a new citizen every seven days, providing evidence to the world there really is no “typical [...]
Should employers be able to ask for employee’s Facebook passwords?
An AP story reported last month a situation in which a company asked a potential hire for their password after learning that their Facebook account was set to private. Many people are up in arms about the invasion of privacy, calling it ludicrous and unreasonable for management to think [...]
Are social media and networking a waste of time?
Are social media and networking including twitter, blogs, google+ and linkedin among other venues and mediums a waste of time or only for those who have nothing else to do? As with most things, the answer is it probably depends. However IMHO the answer is NO, social media and networking when incorporated as a part [...]
Drama In Middle East Drives Global Internet Expansion
Access to information drives human destiny. However, democracy, not so much. As we witnessed in North African nations like Tunisia and Egypt, and now, to a certain extent, Libya, the ability to speak truth to power and to get information from the source, sans top-down censorship, may be enhanced by the tools of the Internet, [...]
Delays Lead To Zero Day Vulnerability
Democracy, the elusive political system, got a lift from Twitter’s Founder, Evan Williams. As we shared earlier this week, prior to Google’s recent refusal to abide by China’s censorship rules, CCTV’s Tian Wei reminded everyone that Google courted and vowed to keep within China’s rules and firewalls, prior to launching there. The Twitter founder says [...]
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