How most social media managers see discussion on Twitter…
Sometimes the hardest part is monitoring what consumers are actually saying in social media about your company. Especially in YouTube comments…
Just saying, in case you think no one is listening, re: termsofenragement:
Corporate social media accounts just remind me of this:
By this time, there was a full-on frenzy as thousand upon thousands of tweets poured out, many celebrating new media’s victory in trouncing old media. It was all so shockingly new and the pitch was so high and it was so late at night on one of the craziest days in memory. That Redditors might have identified the bomber hours before anyone but law enforcement seemed like amazing redemption for people who’d supported Reddit’s crowdsourcing efforts.
Alexis Madrigal, explaining how crowdsourcing on Reddit and Twitter led them to misidentify the wrong people as the Boston bombers.
Lesson learned: the internet is great at some investigations, but amateur analysis can’t be confirmed as fact. Sometimes we need to leave detective work to the professionals…
Combatting creeps on OKCupid using spam-speak
via okcebooks:
this guy got quite misogynistic after the uncomfortable subject of his horrible armpit came up
#FollowFriday list on Twitter
Over the last 5+ years using twitter, I’ve made my share of Follow Friday recommendations. So I compiled as many as I could find into this Twitter list, almost all of whom are still worth following if you’re looking for some new original voices in your feed.
Ask Tina Fey: Twitter (by NBC)
Doesn’t sound like she has a high opinion about Twitter users… (missing Tina and 30 Rock already)
Nielsen: The Rise of Social TV
Nielsen’s 2012 Social Media Report is out ->http://bit.ly/UGbEOm Among the highlights, the rise of Social TV is evolving how consumers use social media, while also transforming TV-watching into a more immediate and shared experience.
What Twitter is really made of….
via sarahlcomics:
Perhaps I’m having a misanthropic week, but lately it feels like Twitter is just full of unfunny people trying too hard to be hilarious.
Can social media predict election outcomes? This infographic provides a case study of twitter followers and election results.
via theatlantic:
The Statistical Probability That Mitt Romney’s Twitter Popularity Is Genuine: 0%
Last week Zach Green of 140Elect, noticed some strange goings-on with Mitt Romney’s Twitter account (@MittRomney). Romney’s account, which had been averaging around 2,000 to 5,000 new followers a day, gained 141,000 followers in two days. […]
We developed a simple methodology for testing whether a set of followers is likely to be the product of natural user following behavior or bot networks. This test revealed a significant difference between the distribution of followers among the accounts in Mitt Romney’s recent spike and that of similar users in our comparison. It strongly indicates that non-organic processes induced Romney’s recent surge in followers. We did not find a similar pattern in Barack Obama’s recent followers.
Read more. [Images: Reuters, Twitter Counter]
