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Rafae Wathra

Twitter tweets are 40% 'babble' - 0 views

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shared by Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09 - Cached
  • A short-term study of Twitter has found that 40% of the messages sent via it are "pointless babble."
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
       
      Social: Privacy This shows how little privacy that Twitter users have sinced they are being judged by complete strangers based on how they tweet (who came to the conclusion that its a lot of pointless babble)
  • In total it grabbed 2,000 messages and then put each message it grabbed into one of six categories; news, spam, self-promotion, pointless babble, conversational and those with pass-along value
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
       
      IT systems: Communication System This shows how Twitter is used as a communication system and what people communicate with it
  • This belief, it said, was driven by the growing number of firms starting to use Twitter as a tool to drum up sales.
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
       
      Impact: Business This is an example of a way by which large businesses use technology to increase sales
Rafae Wathra

Effect of Twitter on Politics (Corporate-Eye) - 2 views

www.corporate-eye.com/...itics-its-not-just-for-profits

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shared by Rafae Wathra on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Rafae Wathra on 19 Apr 10
     
    About the political significance of Twitter
Rafae Wathra

Twitter on Your Cell Phone (How Stuff Works) - 0 views

computer.howstuffworks.com/...twitter3.htm

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shared by Rafae Wathra on 20 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Rafae Wathra on 20 Apr 10
     
    Article about the technology behind using twitter from a scell phone.
Rafae Wathra

How Twitter Works (How Stuff Worrks) - 0 views

computer.howstuffworks.com/...twitter.htm

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shared by Rafae Wathra on 20 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Rafae Wathra on 20 Apr 10
     
    About the API (application programming interface) used in twitter and other IT background
iman mustafa

Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user - 0 views

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shared by iman mustafa on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The blogger, who uses the account name "Cyxymu," (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia) had accounts on all of the different sites that were attacked at the same time, Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told CNET New
  • A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to the sitewide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
  • Kelly declined to speculate on who was behind the attack, but he said: "You have to ask who would benefit the most from doing this and think about what those people are doing and the disregard for the rest of the users and the Internet."
Sarwat Khan

MP is named Labour 'Twitter tsar' - 0 views

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shared by Sarwat Khan on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • and rather than replacing traditional ways of doing things, it is about making traditional campaigning methods even more effective."
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      Sarwat Khan on 27 Aug 09
       
      social Policies
  • She will train MPs and candidates in the best use of the internet.
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 27 Aug 09
       
      Social People
  • Labour MP Kerry McCarthy has been given the job of improving the party's use of social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook ahead of the next election.
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 27 Aug 09
       
      Area Of Impact: Politics IT Systems : Communication systems:Internet Applications: facebook, twitter.
Sarwat Khan

BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | MP is named Labour 'Twitter tsar' - 0 views

LABOUR USING TWITTER FOR NEXT ELECTION.

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shared by Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • Labour MP Kerry McCarthy has been given the job of improving the party's use of social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook ahead of the next election.
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      AREAS OF IMPACT : POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, PEOPLE
  • She will train MPs and candidates in the best use of the internet.
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT SYSTEMS : COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
  • Rather than being something completely new, campaigning using new media is simply doing what we've always done in a new setting - and rather than replacing traditional ways of doing things, it is about making traditional campaigning methods even more effective."
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      SOCIAL ISSUE: POLICY, PEOPLE
Alex David

Hackers hit Twitter and Facebook - 0 views

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shared by Alex David on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • in January this year Twitter announced that 33 accounts had been hacked, including those belonging to US President Barack Obama and singer Britney Spears.
    • Alex David
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      Social & Ethical issues- security , privacy& anonymity
  • Denial-of-service (DOS) attacks take various forms but often involve a company's servers being flooded with data in an effort to disable them.
    • Alex David
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      II Systems- Communication Systems
  • Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook's service was "degraded", according to the firms.
    • Alex David
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      Areas of impact- "Politics & government" & "Arts, Entertainment & Leisure"
Rafae Wathra

Nigeria Islamic court 'bans Twitter feed' (BBC News) - 2 views

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shared by Rafae Wathra on 13 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Rafae Wathra on 13 Apr 10
     
    A rights group can no longer host debates on twitter because of the court.
Jeff Ratliff

Keeping track of everything - 8 views

I know what you mean, podisd. There's a lot to keep up with. I tend to think of the information I need as being in two broad categories: published stuff I want to keep up with and the stuff that w...

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started by podisd on 25 Sep 09 1 follow-up, last by Jeff Ratliff on 27 Sep 09
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Gmail in real-time: Google does the Wave | Webware - CNET - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Ratliff on 30 May 09 - Cached
  • It's a little bit Twitter, a little bit Friendfeed, and a little bit Facebook all in one service
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