Mainstream politicians have responded by pressuring service providers to shut down extremist sites and member pages. Although well-intentioned, that strategy is just further proof of how out of touch they are: As any record company exec will tell you, the Web is far too dynamic a place for blunt regulations. The only way to win over Europe's digital generation is to engage with it on its own terms, in its own media. European political parties need to realize that in the era of Internet politics, winning means ceding a little control -- otherwise, they might lose it completely.
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Clay Risen -- Germany's Election and the Digital Dark Ages - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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This type of thinking is lost on political, union and third sector thinking which still aims at smothering the masses with what they think they need instead of simply providing the tool sets for people to use in their own ways to suit their own needs.
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The last paragraphi is the kicker, but the whole article shows why some political groups get social media and some don't.
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Mainstream politicians have responded by pressuring service providers to shut down extremist sites and member pages. Although well-intentioned, that strategy is just further proof of how out of touch they are: As any record company exec will tell you, the Web is far too dynamic a place for blunt regulations. The only way to win over Europe's digital generation is to engage with it on its own terms, in its own media. European political parties need to realize that in the era of Internet politics, winning means ceding a little control -- otherwise, they might lose it completely.
Be Better at Twitter: The Definitive, Data-Driven Guide - Megan Garber - Technology - T... - 4 views
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"The Twitter ecosystem values learning about new content," the study notes -- so new info, it seems, is new info, regardless of who provides it.
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And sharing your own work conveys excitement about that work -- which means that self-promotion, rather than being a Twitter turn-off, can actually be an added value.
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Excellent article about the research from several researchers about Tweets that are compelling and those that are turn-offs. This and the original research are both great reads. I thought it funny that people particularly hate foursquare check ins mentioned through Twitter, so unlink that account or lose followers! "One piece of advice: Nix the "sandwich tweets." People do not care what you are eating for lunch. (Specifically: "Sorry, but I don't care what people are eating," "too much personal info," "He moans about this ALL THE TIME. Seriously.") Twitter, as a communications platform, has evolved beyond nascent Twttr's charmingly mundane updates ("cleaning my apartment"; "hungry") and into something more crowd-conscious and curatorial. Though Twitter won't necessarily replace traditional news, it increasingly functions as a real-time newswire, disseminating and amplifying information gathered from the world and the web.
11 Ways to Lose Friends and Followers Online | Social Media Rockstar - 0 views
TweetEffect- When did you lose or gain twitter followers? - 14 views
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Find out which of your Twitter updates made people follow or leave you. Simply enter your Twitter ID in the following form.
Twitter relaunches name search, still no tweet search on site - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The micro-messaging service Twitter has taken the slow time during the holiday to bring back a feature that like so many, went away when the site was having performance issues during the earlier parts of this year: People search.
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It seems like Twitter Search is such a useful and powerful feature of the service that it should be front and center on the main site, not buried away.
WP: With Twitter, NFL loses control of image game - Washington Post- nbcsports.msnbc.com - 0 views
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Athletes use twitter to grow fanbase and connect with fans as people rather than helmets and pads. NFL resistant to loss of control.
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