3 Social Media Offenders Creep into Late Adopter Markets
Corpus Christi is a late-adopter market. There’s nothing wrong with this – we know we’re not Silicon Valley by any stretch of the imagination. It takes a while for technology to trickle down to our south Texas market. Maybe it’s our easy-going coastal lifestyle, maybe it is our geographic location (does technology rely on gravity to reach us?). Who knows?
What I have noticed as someone who has kept her eye on social media for the past two years is that not only has social media use caught up with the average American, but so has the misuse.
A new analysis demonstrates that "Chicks Rule" and analyzes gender balance on social networking sites.
On Twitter, Information Beats Sentiment
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University recently revealed the results of a study which looked into how people were using Twitter to talk about products. Companies, of course, fear what a negative barrage of tweets can do to their brand, leading many to establish Twitter accounts themselves to provide information, customer service, and support. As it turns out, these businesses may not need to worry too much about what the "Twitter effect" can do to their image after all. The study revealed that the number of brand-related tweets where sentiment is expressed is not the dominating force that you may think. In fact, the majority of tweets mentioning a brand are merely casual comments or tweets from someone giving or seeking information. And when sentiment is expressed, it's generally positive.
NYC Anarchist Arrested For Protest Tweets
Welcome to Iran via the Group of 20 protests in Pittsburgh. Looks like an interesting case. Can you use Twitter to point out police movements during a protest? We now know you can be arrested for it.
If it's illegal, will police eventually be able to monitor cell phone traffic in the vicinity of a protest to detect something similar? Someone could cc a pre-arranged list of activists, accomplishing the very same thing. That might be a violation of the law, too, no?
