Twitter As A Marketing Tool
The marketing industry is one which depends so greatly on having its finger on the pulse, it came as no surprise when people recognised the benefit of using Twitter as a marketing tool. If you think about it for a moment, the presence on the Internet of a site that allows you to speak to a wide range of people for free and place a link in the text has obvious and extensive marketing benefits. Not least of these is the fact that it cuts your marketing spend right back if used properly. When it comes to marketing effectively, one ...
Twitter Clients – No, Not That Kind Of Client…
As Twitter gains popularity, it has also driven the popularity of another recent internet phenomenon, that of the desktop “client”. Not a website, but still connected to the web, a client is a program that draws information from and distributes it to a website without the user needing to visit that site themselves. While this is not always a necessity, it does increase the convenience of the service. One particular reason for using a client is that you may be surfing another site and want to keep as few tabs open as possible – so instead of going back and ...
Is 140 Characters Ever Enough?
One thing that has emerged over the course of the last decade is a common aversion towards text speak, or a phenomenon to which people have begun to refer as “txt spk”. This is particularly prevalent among people who feel that language should be respected by those who use it and that if you are going to use a word, you should use the full word. While character limits (first identified as a barrier to clear communication with the advent of text messaging) do confer a certain urgency upon not wasting a word or a letter, it is possible to ...
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Twitter As A Marketing Tool
The marketing industry is one which depends so greatly on having its finger on the...
Where Does Twitter Fit In?
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Posting Links On Twitter
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Twitter’s country-specific censorship tool prompts user protest
Several global companies, including Google and Facebook, already have similar policies to remove content to comply with individual countries’ laws regarding speech — one of the most commonly cited examples of a law like this is Germany’s prohibition against pro-Nazi content. Critics worry that Twitter’s policy will destroy its capability to... [Read more of this article]
Twitter to Censor Tweets Country-by-Country
Twitter’s logo. Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images ABC News’ Kevin Dolak and Ned Potter Report: Twitter has announced a new plan that will allow it to censor users’ tweets on a country-by-country basis if governments object to them. It says the policy is an attempt to keep doing business in countries, such as China, that do not... [Read more of this article]
Twitter faces censorship charges
Twitter, championed as a tool of free expression during the Arab Spring, was facing censorship charges on Friday after announcing it can now block tweets on a country-by-country basis if legally required to do so. San Francisco-based Twitter stressed the move in no way compromised its commitment to free speech, but the backlash was immediate with critics... [Read more of this article]
Twitter offers to block posts if needed
NEW DELHI: Twitter, a hugely popular social networking site for microblogging, has said that “if required by the law” it can block tweets in a particular country. In a post titled ‘Tweets Must Still Flow’, Twitter, which has around 300 million users, wrote on its official blog, “Starting today, we give ourselves the... [Read more of this article]
Twitter uncloaks a year’s worth of DMCA takedown notices, 4,410 in all
On almost any given day, Twitter receives a handful of requests to delete tweets that link to pirated versions of copyrighted content—and quickly complies by erasing the offending tweets from its site. That fact itself is probably unsurprising to people familiar with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown process, which gives... [Read more of this article]
Activists and bloggers fear Twitter censorship
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Bloggers and activists from China, the Middle East and Latin America said Friday they were afraid that new Twitter policies could allow governments to censor messages, stifling free expression. Thursday’s announcement that Twitter had refined its technology to censor... [Read more of this article]
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