McDonald’s denounces racist twitter hoax
McDonald’s has found itself in serious damage control after the circulation of a discriminative image on the internet.The photograph appeared on Twitter on the weekend and shows a hoax sign that was allegedly posted on a McDonald’s staff notice board.The sign says an insurance measure due in part to a recent string of robberies African [...]
Legal action against Twitter
An English local authority said on Sunday it had taken US micro-blogging site Twitter to court in California and forced it to release the details of a British user.South Tyneside Council, in northeast England, took the legal action in a bid to discover the identity of a blogger behind allegedly libellous statements.The blogger, known as [...]
A Look at the True Twitter Audience
Reports of Twitter usage can vary widely. The company itself reported that as of September 2010, 175 million accounts had been created. Firms that track unique visitors to Twitter.com tallied between approximately 20 million and 26 million per month last year.But because of duplicate accounts, international users, “Twitter quitters” and the fact that many visitors [...]
Auto Thank You Messages & Twitter
Searching the web recently keeping up with the goings on with social media, I came across an article by a self proclaimed social media guru on the subject of auto thank you messages on Twitter. These are messages that you can send out automatically to thank someone who decides to follow you. I’ve had them [...]
Twitter Video Streams Watched for 2 Mins
The average online video stream discovered on the Twitter social network is viewed for two minutes and seven seconds , according to a new study from TubeMogul, Brightcove, and DynamicLogic. Twitter Beats Yahoo, Facebook Comparing the average viewing time of 103,731,006 random video streams discovered on several leading social networks and search engines, “Online Video [...]
