Tag: twitter
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#amazonfail and we’re not done yet: links and perspectives (UPDATED with new links)
Update, April 21: added some additional links here Amazon’s stock has recovered, bouyed by Friday’s report that Kindle sales have exceeded expectations. Traffic on the #amazonfail hashtag is much lighter. The auction for AmazonFail.com is over, at least for the time being. But I don’t think this issue’s going away quite that quickly. Right now…
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Tweet the silence! #dayofsilence Twitter chat today at 3:30 PM Eastern/12:30 Pacific
The National Day of Silence brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. Each year the event has grown, now with hundreds of thousands of students coming together to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior. — dayofsilence.org 11-year-old Carl Walker-Hoover took his own life last week after constant…
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Guest-blogging mania! New posts on Twitter activism and innovation
I’ve got a couple of new guest-blog posts up elsewhere: Skittles and infowar: #pman, disinformation, and trolls on The Seminal continues the “Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists” series, focusing on the Moldovan protests. This week’s lesson: Expect interference — and have a plan to deal with it. I posted an earlier draft here;…
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My reply to Clay Shirky on #amazonfail
Clay’s post The failure of #amazonfail admits that over the weekend, he jumped to conclusions, “believed things that weren’t true” about Amazon and was “intoxicated” by the hashtag. He now thinks he was wrong. Most of the post is written in the first person plural, assuming everybody else reacted as he did. He concludes that…
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#pxfridays, TweetLeft and #followfriday: connecting progressives on Twitter
In Strategies for progressives on Twitter, Tracy Viselli and I talked about the importance of tools and techniques for flash actions on Twitter. Conservatives have been organizing longer and have the early lead, but I think progressives and bipartisans are starting to catch up.
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Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists: part 1 now posted on The Seminal!
A few weeks ago Agency.com and Skittles kicked off “Interweb the rainbowâ€, a brilliant marketing campaign that involved multiple social networks. The idea was simple: replace the Skittles.com home page with different social network sites. Late that Sunday evening, they set it up to show everything that people were saying on Twitter about Skittles. Everything,…
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Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists, parts 1 (and 2?) (DRAFT!!!!)
DRAFT! Work in Progress! Feedback, please! Final version to be published in The Seminal, potentially in two parts excerpt from skittles home page, March 2009
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How to promote “Ask the President” on Twitter
Ask The President is launching Thursday, March 19. You can help promote it by tweeting about the site once its live, retweeting any links about it, using Twitter to ask people to vote for any questions you submit, and . And if you see other people tweeting about it, please retweet!
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Launching “Ask The President” on Twitter
Original draft March 16. Revised March 19. “Net movement” journalist/activist Ari Melber’s latest brainstorm, Ask the President, is launching on March 19 at http://www.communitycounts.com/Obama.  The basic idea is to provide a followon to Change.gov’s short-lived Open for Questions series [1, 2]: a way for people to submit potential questions and vote on what they…
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#women2follow: collaborative empowerment on Twitter
The idea behind #Women2Follow Wednesdays is straightforward: to recognize and promote women in the technology and social media field — and help people find each other. If you’re on Twitter, it’s easy to participate.
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#digg it, continued: more Twitter/digg experimental results
The great thing about the #digg it experiment (trying to use Twitter to increase visibility for progressives, feminists, and women of color on Digg), is that it’s so easy to explain to people*: if you’ve got a story you’re trying to promote on Digg, include the #digg hashtag when you tweet it, and at least…
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Gender differences in response to Skittlemania
Sunday night, Agency.com relaunched the Skittles* website as a redirect to social network sites. The main page showed a Twitter search for “skittles”. Other links went to flickr, Facebook, and Wikipedia. Hilarity ensued, with “#skittles” shooting to the #1 Twitter term for the day. With over 4000 blog posts and positive articles in the Wall…
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#p2: statistics, with a gender perspective
I wanted to expand on my remark in yesterday’s post about the gender ratio on #p2 staying “relatively well-balanced” with some statistics from the 24 hours ending at noon (Pacific time) today. While this is only one data point — and over a weekend, too — it’s roughly in line with the other measurements I’ve…
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#p2 on Twitter: some thoughts after the first week
#p2 Twitterchat Monday (2/23), 6:30 PM Pacific/9:30 PM Eastern. Tentative agenda here. Feedback, please … and hope to see you then! It’s been an encouraging first week for the new #p2 Twitter hashtag that Tracy Viselli and I proposed in The Exception last Friday. Usage has steadily increased (more people, more tweets), especially after Sarah…
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Dealing with trolls on Twitter: #p2, #tcot, #topprog, #bipart, and a magic search query
One of the challanges with using Twitter for activism is one that’s all too familiar to anybody who’s spent time online: dealing with trolls and other disruptions.*Â Twitter hashtags are completely open, so anybody can post on them, which means we frequently see tweets like: I should also state that some sissy liberal might find…
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Facebook reverts to previous TOS. A win for social network activism!
With over 90,000 members in the protest group on Facebook, EPIC (the Electronic Privacy Information Center) and other privacy organizations filing a complaint readying a complaint to file with the FTC, over 750 articles, and headlines like Facebook seems to have a trust problem, it’s not too surprising that Facebook decided to rethink their stance…
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Zuckerberg: “we wouldn’t share your information in a way you wouldn’t want.” Oh really?
Mark Zuckerberg has a comment up on the Facebook blog in response to the firestorm about their new terms of service: Our philosophy is that people own their information and control who they share it with. When a person shares information on Facebook, they first need to grant Facebook a license to use that information…
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Facebook: all your content are belong to us. FOREVER! Protests ensue.
Facebook’s terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore. — Chris Walters in The Consumerist And people aren’t happy about it. Anne Kathrine Yojana Petterøe’s People Against the new Terms of Service (TOS)…
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The #p2 Hashtag and Strategies for Progressives on Twitter
Originally published on The Exception Co-written with Tracy Viselli. Previous draft here.
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Feedback, please on draft recommendations: how progressives can use Twitter strategically
Tracy Viselli and I are working on an article for The Exception on how progressives can use Twitter. Here’s our current thinking on recommendations: progressives should get good at Twitter best practices: insiders providing information regularly, backchannels at conferences and workshops, regular Twitter-based chats by organizations and bloggers, contact lists and skills pitching to journalists…