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Media: Twitter Emergency Boredom

Contributed by Rick DeVan on September 2, 2011 at 8:00 pm ET

Resource: Twitter Becomes a Playground During Hurricane Irene via NYTimes.com.

Many New Yorkers, faced with the boredom after 24 hours in hibernation, turned into comedians and cub reporters for the day. There were dozens of pictures taken from the movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” where the Statue of Liberty is destroyed in a tidal wave, shared online.

There’s one, or one million, in every crowd.

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Media: Joey Barton

Contributed by Rick DeVan on at 8:00 pm ET

Resource: Joey Barton on Twitter.

This campaign has got me thinking, surely social media can bring people together to fight for a better society and demand accountability…

…from MP’s and our government. Am gonna go away and speak to some techies about a People Vs type website, to tackle issues in our society

Resource: Joey Barton: What’s behind his Twitter philosophy?

It’s easy to mock, says Simon Kuper, the Financial Times columnist and author of The Football Men. But Barton should be applauded for going against the anti-intellectual grain of English football culture, he argues.

I started following UK footballer Joey Barton on Twitter this week. I don’t know how long it will last but my cynical guard is down for the time being. In using (social) media for (social) change improvement, every voice is important.

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Media: Twitter Search Upgraded

Contributed by Rick DeVan on June 2, 2011 at 8:27 am ET

Resource: Twitter Search.

Resource: At 1.6 Billion Queries Per Day, Twitter Finally Aims To Make Search Personally Relevant via TechCrunch.

Resource: The Engineering Behind Twitter’s New Search Experience via Twitter Engineering.

Twitter is most powerful when you personalize it by choosing interesting accounts to follow, so why shouldn’t your search results be more personalized too? They are now! Our ranking function accesses the social graph and uses knowledge about the relationship between the searcher and the author of a Tweet during ranking.

The above quote is about the only part of the blog post I understand. Let’s just say Twitter search should now give you more relevant results.

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Diversion: Escaped Cobra Tweets Travels Around NYC

Contributed by Rick DeVan on March 30, 2011 at 9:41 am ET

Resource: A Snake Escapes the Bronx Zoo and Appears on Twitter via NYTimes.com.

BronxZoosCobra on Twitter.

You gotta love this!

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FOMO

Contributed by Rick DeVan on March 21, 2011 at 7:01 am ET

Resource: On Twitter, ‘What a Party!’ Brings an Envious ‘Enough, Already’ via NYTimes.com.

Even as Twitter says half a million people a day are signing up for the service, some of its most devoted users are warning that the tantalizing window it provides on the lives of friends, colleagues, rivals and celebrities can have a downside. In a blog entry, Caterina Fake, the co-founder of the photo-sharing sight Flickr, called the anxiety produced by the technology “fear of missing out,” or FOMO.

I am as much of a Danny DeVito fan as the next guy, but I have to ask myself if Danny walked into this coffee shop right now, would I tweet it?

I will let you know, or not, next time I run into Danny.

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